PKK TERRORISM - THE FACTS

Unveiling the PKK
Bruce Fein/Washington Times, January 3, 2008 - Contrary to media reports, the Marxist-Leninist terrorist Kurdistan Workers' Party's (PKK) ambition is not regional autonomy in Turkey. [read]

Turkey, terrorism and double standards
Bruce Fein/Washington Times,November 13, 2007 - The United States is imploring Turkey to desist from invading northern Iraq to combat the PKK, a Marxist-Leninist terrorist organization that keenly relishes the slaughter of Turkish teachers, doctors, technicians, engineers, Kurdish village guards and police, and otherwise. [web] [pdf]

The 'Kurdish problem' is our problem
LA Times, October 22, 2007 - The "Kurdish problem" used to be a Turkish problem, a Syrian problem, an Iranian problem and an Iraqi problem. The U.S. invasion of Iraq has turned it into an American problem -- and lately, a very vexing one. [web] [pdf]

Erdogan Talks Turkey in Washington
Andrew Purvis/www.time.com, November 4, 2007 - The visit by Turkey's Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan to the White House on November 5 marks an important test of the relationship between America and its best ally in the Muslim world. [web] [pdf]

Turks demand action, not words
Matthew Schofield-McClatchy Newspapers, November 02, 2007, ANKARA, Turkey - Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice on Friday branded the Kurdistan Workers' Party a "terrorist organization" and a "common enemy" of the United States, Turkey and Iraq, but she stopped short of committing Washington to military action against the guerrilla force. [web] [pdf]

The United States welcomes the release of eight Turkish soldiers
Sean McCormack/US Department of State, Press Statement, November 4 - The United States welcomes the release of eight Turkish soldiers who were captured by the terrorist Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK) on October 21. [web] [pdf]

Talking Points on PKK Terrorism
The PKK is an armed terrorist organization, listed as such by the U.S. Government and the European Union.  It employs force and the threat of force against civilian and military targets to achieve its political goals. [pdf]

Turkey, Armenians. Kurds, Iraq and the US
Dr. Megalommatis/American Chronicle, October 22, 2007 -America is new in the Middle East; to put it correctly, the US remains for more than 60 years a novice. This alone illuminates the problem perfectly well. [web] [pdf]

SELECT MEDIA COVERAGE ON ARMENIAN RESOLUTION

Turkey's new envoy says genocide bill impedes reconciliation
Bridget Johnson, Staff Writer/LA Daily News, 11/10/2007 - U.S. lawmakers should not fixate on the Armenian Genocide bill, which is an insult to many Turks and a roadblock to reconciliation between Turkey and the Armenian community, the new Turkish consul general in Los Angeles said.[web] [pdf]

Turkey's War on the Truth
By Richard Cohen/Washington Post, October 16, 2007 - It goes without saying that the House resolution condemning Turkey for the "genocide" of Armenians from 1915 to 1923 will serve no earthly purpose... [web] [pdf]

Partisan Politics and Democrats’ Turkey Problem
By Stuart Rothenberg/Roll Call, October 22, 2007 - If there is anything that points out the difference between most Republicans and most Democrats, it is Congress’ effort to pass a resolution that labels Turkey’s slaughter of Armenians almost a century ago as “genocide.”[pdf]

Why We Are Losing Turkey
By Tony Blankley/Real Clear Politics, October 24, 2007 - With the steady decline of our selected ally Gen. Pervez Musharraf's ability to govern Pakistan and the growing alienation of the Turkish people and government from their longtime ally the United States... [web] [pdf]

Genocide claims against Turkey frivolous
By Thomas Goltz/Missoulian News Online, October 12, 2007 - For as long as I have been academically associated with Turkey, the Middle East and the post-Soviet Caucasus, Diaspora Armenians in California, Massachusetts...[web] [pdf]

Congress and Armenia
By Recep Tayyip Erdogan/The Wall Street Journal, October 19, 2007 - Efforts to rewrite the history of the events of 1915 through legislative fiat and vilify Turks are not new to the U.S. Congress. But past attempts were always contained through support in Congress and from successive presidential administrations. [pdf]

Armenian genocide measure is misguided
By Bruce Fein/San Francisco Chronicle, October 21, 2007 - House Speaker Nancy Pelosi believed that the Armenian genocide resolution (HR106) that passed the House Foreign Affairs Committee on Oct. 10 would be a slam dunk for her national stature and leadership. [web] [pdf]

Armenian debacle
By Tulin Daloglu/Washington Times, October 16, 2007 - House Speaker Nancy Pelosi says she believes that "the biggest ethical challenge facing our country is the war in Iraq. [web][pdf]

History Speaks:The moral case against the Armenian Genocide Resolution
By Barbara Lerner/National Review Online, October18, 2007 - Prudential arguments against the Armenian genocide resolution pending in Congress are gaining traction; odds for passage in November that looked overwhelming last month look more like a toss-up today. [web][pdf]

Judgment Time:Should America recognize an Armenian Genocide?
By Barbara Lerner/National Review Online, September 7, 2007 - Calls for America to recognize the Armenian tragedy of 1915 as genocide, and to condemn the Turks for it, grow louder, more insistent, and more varied by the week. [web] [pdf]

Armenian Story has Another Side
By Norman Stone/Chicago Tribune, October 17, 2007- All the world knows what the end of an empire looks like: hundreds of thousands of people fleeing down dusty paths, taking what was left of their possessions; [web] [pdf]

U.S. can calm a ruffled Turkey
Editorial by Christian Science Monitor, October 17, 2007 -Two hot-button issues have set off Turkish ire and severely strained US ties: Turkey's history with war and increased dangers to its present-day security. [web] [pdf]

Pointless Moral Exhibitionism on Turkey
By Rich Lowry/National Review Online. October 16, 2007 - The Ottoman Empire died an ignominious death 85 years ago in the aftermath of World War I. Democrats are nonetheless intent on rebuking it for the mass killing of Armenians during World War I that many scholars and a proposed House resolution call “genocide.” [web] [pdf]

Stirring up th past, jeopardizing the future
By Bronwen Maddox/The Times, October 17, 2007 - The most extraordinary spectacle of the past week has been the apparent desire of the US Congress to pronounce as genocide the 1915 massacre of Armenians by Turks, even though there is nothing more provocative to Turkey, and no worse time at which to do it. [web] [pdf]

Armenia crime amnesia?
By Bruce Fein/Washington Times, October 16, 2007 - Armenian crimes against humanity and war crimes against the Ottoman Turkish and Kurdish populations of eastern and southern Anatolia during World War I and its aftermath have been forgotten amidst congressional preoccupation with placating the vocal and richly financed Armenian lobby. [web] [pdf]

Secretary of State Pelosi
Editorial by the Wall Street Journal, October 16, 2007-House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, famous for donning a head scarf earlier this year to commune for peace with the Syrians, has now concluded that this is the perfect moment to pass a Congressional resolution condemning Turkey for the Armenian genocide of 1915.[web] [pdf]

Turkey in the crosshairs
Editorial by the Washington Times, October 15, 2007 - A combination of events — including a dramatic upsurge in violence from Kurdish terrorists based in northern Iraq and a House resolution condemning Turkey for the mass killings of Armenians more than 80 years ago — have created an explosive, dangerous situation on the Turkish-Iraq border that could endanger the resupply of U.S. forces in Iraq. [web] [pdf]

Tawdry Genocide Tale
By Bruce Fein/Washington Times. September 2, 2007 - On Tuesday, Aug. 21, the national director of the Anti-Defamation League (ADL), Abraham H. Foxman, somersaulted from a longstanding ADL policy. [web] [pdf]

This wasn't genocide
By Shlomo Bar-Meir, Jerusalem Post, September 2, 2007. "Sir, - While the Armenian deaths in WWI were a great tragedy, they were not genocide. The Armenian population was in almost total revolt against the Ottoman Turks." [pdf]

Letter to Abraham H. Foxman, ADL of B’Nai B’Rith
By Jak V. Kamhi/ August 22, 2007. "Dear Abe, I write to you concerning the "ADL Statement on the Armenian Genocide" dated 21st August 2007, in which you add the prestige of the ADL to those who, for all sorts of reasons,." [pdf]

Why America Should Build Bridges to Turkey
By Liz Peek/New York Sun, July 3, 2007. "The Turks are getting cranky, and who can blame them? Since recovering from a fiscal crisis in 2001, the country has racked up one of the best growth rates in the world, and today it is the 17th largest economy." [pdf]

Local teachers find Turkey 'in stark contrast' to stereotypes
By Brian C. Rittmeyer/TRIBUNE-REVIEW, August 23, 2007. "Three local educators will go back to school this year with more than just textbook knowledge." [pdf]

Statement by Professor Norman Stone
Concerning the “ADL Statement on the Armenian Genocide” issued on 21st August 2007. "Dear Mr Foxman, I am writing to you about the resolution, recently-published, of the ADL, concerning the Armenian events of 1915 in Turkey." [pdf]

Re: Truth and Consequences: Armenians, Turks and Jews
By Denis Ojalvo, August 22, 2007."The strategy of the Armenian side, from its very inception has been to implicate the Republic of Turkey in the events which preceded its foundation, by extending the period of the alleged genocide from 1915 to 1923, instead of 1918. Moreover, they do not hesitate to forge documents and photos for sustaining that argument." [pdf]

Let's Unearth the Truth About what happened in 1915 together
The NY Times ad, April 23, 2007 [pdf]

Turkey is vital to Europe's future
By David Miliband/The Daily Telegraph, September 5 2007."In the 20th century, Britain's national security came under threat from hostile nations. Today, the threat is from terrorist groups, such as al-Qa'eda, operating within failed states, seeking to fracture the world along religious lines." [pdf]

Turkish ambassador: "Give all sides a hearing"
In response to an inquiry by the Advocate, the Turkish ambassador to the U.S. issued the following statement: " It was surprising and disappointing when, on August 21, ADL abruptly changed its longtime position regarding the historical interpretation of the events of 1915 – even though the organization appeared later to recalibrate its course." [pdf]

Judgment Time:Should America recognize an Armenian Genocide?
By Barbara Lerner/National Review Online, September 07, 2007. "Calls for America to recognize the Armenian tragedy of 1915 as genocide, and to condemn the Turks for it, grow louder, more insistent, and more varied by the week." [pdf]

Turkey Add Energy to America’s Relations with Turkey
By Marc Grossman/GMF Blog, September 7, 2007. " Americans should pay close attention to the news from Turkey . The August 28 election of a new president, which has provoked strong opposition from the powerful Turkish military, is a test of Turkey ’s democracy." [pdf]

ADL should not redefine genocide
Tom Mountain/Jewish Advocate, September 12, 2007. "The police and civilian mob came for them in the night, forcing them at gunpoint into the streets, stripping them of their property on the spot before shipping them to internment camps for expulsion."[pdf]