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ABD’deki Ermeni diasporasının Atatürk’ü sözde Ermeni soykırımının failleri arasında göstermesi ve Atatürk’ü diktatör olarak lanse etmesi ile birlikte Carson Şehir Konseyi’ni California’daki Ermeni asıllı vekiller ve Belediye Başkanları aracılığıyla baskı altına alması sonrasında anıt projesini teklif eden Carson Belediye Yönetimi, bu projesinden geri adım atmıştı.
ABD için George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, Benjamin Franklin ve Abraham Lincoln ne mana ifade ediyorsa Atatürk’ün Türkiye için bu şekilde bir anlam taşıdığını ifade eden Türk Amerikan toplumu üyeleri, Carson Şehir Konseyi ve Belediye Meclisi üyelerine mektuplar göndererek tepkilerini dile getiriyor.
Türk Amerikan Dernekleri Asamblesi (ATAA) de neşrettiği bir mesajla Türk Amerikan toplumunu, Türkiye düşmanlığını Starbucks şubesine asılan Türk bayraklı festival fotoğraflarını dahi engelleme derecesine kadar ilerleten Ermeni diasporasının Türkiye ve Türk kültürüne ait her değere şedid muhalefetine karşı adım atarak Carson Şehri yöneticilerine tepki göstermeye davet etti.
Aşağıda bulacağınız hazır mektupları aşağıdaki adreslere gönderebilirsiniz;
Carson Belediye Başkanı Jim Dear: jdear@carson.ca.us
Belediye Başkan Yardımcısı Elito M. Santarina: myfrancisone@yahoo.com
Şehir Konseyi Üyesi Lula Davis-Holmes: lholmes@carson.ca.us
Şehir Konseyi Üyesi Albert Robles: arobles@carson.ca.us
1. ÖRNEK MEKTUP
Dear Mayor Jim Dear:
I am deeply saddened that on March 4, 2015, the Council elected to deny the construction of an Ataturk Monument at the city’s International Peace Garden.
Ataturk was born Mustafa Kemal in a home of modest means in what was then the Ottoman city of Salonika, today Thessaloniki, Greece.
Ataturk initially gained fame when successfully defending Ottoman territory in the famous Battle of Gallipoli in 1915. Not long after the end of World War I, Ataturk rebelled against the Ottoman Sultan because he believed that a better life awaited the people of Turkey as members of the Western community.
Ataturk founded the Republic of Turkey in a revolution that transformed Turkish society from a theocratic monarchy to a secular democracy, and from a centralize economy to a vibrant market place that is today the world’s 15th largest economy. Turkey today commands the second largest military in NATO, and is a key ally of the United States.
Ataturk’s Republic produced diplomats who provided Turkish passports to hundreds of European Jews so they could escape the Holocaust. Ataturk’s Republic honored the request of Albert Einstein to provide residence and jobs to hundreds of Jewish scholars and scientists. Ataturk’s Republic was the second nation to recognize the independence of Israel, after the United States. It is so heartbreaking and alarming, therefore, to read Armenian news reports that the City Council equated Ataturk with Hitler and Turkey with Nazi Germany.
Ataturk was commended and honored by American leaders such as Franklin D. Roosevelt, John F. Kennedy, General Douglas MacArthur, as well as author Ernest Hemingway and British leader Winston Churchill. Please see the attached quotes.
In my opinion, the City Council meeting did not do justice to the memory of Ataturk, who would have been a perfect addition to the International Peace Garden. Ataturk is known around the world for his words, “Peace at Home, Peace in the World.”
It appears that the City Council meeting was overtaken by those with an irrational hatred against people of Turkish heritage, and that the Council was bullied into a horrible decision based on erroneous and reckless information. In short, the City Council was duped into become another group’s tool to discriminate and alienate a whole U.S. heritage community. International peace is much more than landscaping; it requires a more rational approach far beyond hacking down the memory of people, like weeds and brush.
Please advise me how and when you will be revisiting your decision.
Thank you
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“I obtained information concerning Mustafa Kemal from someone who knows him very well. When talking with Foreign Minister Litvinov of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics, he said that in his opinion, the most valuable and interesting statesman in all of Europe does not live in Europe today, but beyond the Bosphorus, he lives in Ankara, and that this was the President of the Turkish Republic, Gazi Mustafa Kemal Ataturk.”
Franklin D. Roosevelt, President of the United States of America
“The name of Ataturk reminds people of the historical successes of one of the great individuals of this century, the leadership that gave inspiration to the Turkish nation, farsightedness in the understanding of the modern world and courage and power as a military leader. It is without a doubt that another example can’t be shown indicating greater successes than the birth of the Turkish Republic and ever since then Ataturk’s and Turkey’s broad and deep reforms undertaken as well as the confidence of a nation in itself.”
John F. Kennedy, President of the United States of America
“He was a military-statesman, one of the greatest leaders of our era. He ensured that Turkey got its rightful place among the most advanced nations. Also, he gave the feeling of support and self-confidence to the Turks that form the foundation stone of a nation’s greatness. I take great pride in being one of Ataturk’s loyal friends.”
General Douglas MacArthur, USA Commander-in-Chief of the Far East Forces
“The West and the East came face to face at the second class coastal town of Mudanya on a crooked road covered with dust on the hot Marmara coast. Despite the English flag ship “Iron-Duke’s” ash-colored deathly turrets that transported the Allied generals for negotiations with Ismet Pasha, the Westerners had come here to beg for peace, not to ask for peace or to dictate the conditions. These negotiations demonstrate the end of Europe’s dominance over Asia, because as everyone knows, Mustafa Kemal got rid of all the Greeks.”
Ernest Hemingway, American Journalist and Novelist Nobel Laureate
“Ataturk’s death is not only a loss for the country, but for Europe is the greatest loss, he who saved Turkey in the war and who revived a new the Turkish nation after the war. The sincere tears shed after him by all classes of people is nothing other than an appropriate manifestation to this great hero and modern Turkey’s Ata.”
Winston Churchill, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom
2. ÖRNEK MEKTUP
Dear Mayor Pro Tempore Elito M. Santarina:
I am very disappointed that on March 4, 2015, the Council censored Ataturk from the City International Peace Garden. I hope this is not a final resolution of this important initiative.
The Armenian National Committee of America (ANCA), which has taken credit for this censorship, and its ultra-nationalist supporters have misled and bullied the leaders and people of Carson.
According to the Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington (CREW), ANCA is not only the U.S. representative of a foreign political party, the ultranationalist Armenian Revolutionary Federation (ARF), it has refused with impunity to register its foreign lobbying work under the Foreign Agents Registration Act (FARA). http://www.citizensforethics.org/index.php/press/entry/complaint-against-armenian-national-committee-of-america-western-region/
Chillingly, ARF’s militant wing, the Justice Commandos, was complicit in terrorist attacks on US soil in the 1980s, including the murder of three Turkish diplomats in Los Angeles. http://www.nytimes.com/1982/01/29/us/turkish-diplomat-is-slain-on-coast.html
While the City Council yielded to extremism on March 4, and heeded the demands of the pro-ARF Mayors of Glendale and Montebello, Zareh Sinanian and Jack Hadjinian, it still has the opportunity to exercise good reason and common sense regarding the Ataturk initiative, as well as to stand against prejudice and to support American diversity.
Turkish American community is profoundly disappointed by the Carson City Council’s decision. The decision is not only insulting to the founding leader of a NATO ally which has shown unyielding solidarity with the United States, but also is vehemently offensive to the symbols and principles that the American citizens of Turkish descent hold dear.
The Council’s decision shows a total disregard to the feelings of the American citizens of Turkish descent for whom those who hold political office are also responsible. This act would only serve to disenfranchise and alienate the Turkish Americans. Furthermore, with its decision Carson City Council is stoking hatred and fueling enmity against Turkish Americans in their own district and beyond.
Indeed, Ataturk founded the Republic of Turkey in a revolution that transformed Turkish society from a theocratic monarchy to a secular democracy.
At Ataturk’s funeral, Winston Churchill declared:
“Ataturk’s death is not only a loss for the country, but for Europe is the greatest loss, he who saved Turkey in the war and who revived a new the Turkish nation after the war. The sincere tears shed after him by all classes of people is nothing other than an appropriate manifestation to this great hero and modern Turkey’s Ata.”
John F. Kennedy celebrated Ataturk:
“The name of Ataturk reminds people of the historical successes of one of the great individuals of this century, the leadership that gave inspiration to the Turkish nation, farsightedness in the understanding of the modern world and courage and power as a military leader. It is without a doubt that another example can’t be shown indicating greater successes than the birth of the Turkish Republic and ever since then Ataturk’s and Turkey’s broad and deep reforms undertaken as well as the confidence of a nation in itself.”
Ataturk is perfect for the International Peace Garden. He has been true to the word and spirit of the words he is best known for, “Peace at Home, Peace in the World.” Please take the opportunity to reconsider.
Thank you
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