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Parlamenter,
Kampanyanın İngilizce metni
Mr. / Mrs. Member of the Canadian Parliament,
I learned regretfully that you accepted the draft law of M-380, which is based on according to baseless Armenian claims. I said regretfully because, it is quite difficult to understand the government of a state like Canada, which is a state of law and has different ethnic groups within, accept a resolution in favor of one specific group and humiliate the other. After a resolution that is completely incongruous with international norms and historical facts, it is quite doubtful that Canadian Parliament represents all its people or just a particular group. In addition, when I learned that draft law M-377, proposing disclaim of genocide will be accepted as offence is on your agenda, with regret and astonishment. I am astonished because; you not only accept that a nation is guilty because of a crime that was not committed, but also, you fail to carry out the research and debates about the issue. I am astonished because; I have difficulty in understanding by which characteristic of democracy Canada, claiming to be one of the representatives of democracy (!), reconciles this activity.
I think it will be helpful to remind you the United Nations definition of genocide, which is given below, quoted in Contract of Prevention and Punishment of Crime of Genocide that was accepted on December 9, 1948 and came into force on January 12, 1951:
For the purpose of annihilation of national, ethnic, racial or religious group completely or partly; murder of the group members, destroying them physically or mentally, keeping them in conditions which may result by the annihilation of physical presence of the whole or part of the group, taking precautions to avoid births, integrating the children of the group to other group by force.
According to this definition, genocide can only be done by annihilation of the members of national, ethnic, racial or religious groups not because of what theyve done but just for being a member of that group, and it should be by an obvious intention or plan.
However, the events occurred between 1915 1920 were not genocide but, a legal activity of relocation (tehcir- yer değiştirme) arising from the right of self defense that states apply during wars since Armenians, who were citizens of the Ottoman Empire, had been fighting against the Ottomans siding with Russians. Relocation is a legal procedure to remove the civilians from the battlefield.
Similarly, during World War II France relocated the Alsazs, German speaking French citizens, US made its Japanese-Americans emigrate, Austria banished Italians, who are now Swiss citizens, during the battles that took place in 1939-1940. Moreover, neither Alsazs nor Japanese or Italians did attack the states of which they were citizens.
If the practice of Ottomans would be called genocide, many western countries such as France, USA, Austria must be accused of the same crime and the same decisions must be taken for them as well.
Hearing the 1915 events only from Armenians, who constructed their identity on the so-called genocide, could lead you to such a mistake. Whereas, the historical facts can be reached in the Ottoman, US, British, German, Austrian and Russian archives. If the issue is researched, it will be seen that the events that took place at the time was not genocide, and meanwhile during these events the Turks suffered so much as well.
Mr. / Mrs. Member of Parliament; without question, it is an important mission for humanity to bring maltreatments to human and human dignity to surface and to take lessons from the past. Nevertheless, it has to be done by the help of historical facts, international agreements and laws, not based on the feelings of hatred and antagonism. Unfortunately, your accusations about genocide towards Turks by a subjective point of view and moreover, trying to accept it as a FACT, is infringement of human rights towards Turks. In fact, according to Universal Declaration of Human Rights (Article 11/1) Everyone charged with a penal offence has the right to be presumed innocent until proved guilty according to law in a public trial at which he has had all the guarantees necessary for his defense. However, your Parliament perceives itself as a court, and without witnesses and analyzing evidences, take the decision concerning the so-called genocide!? At this point I want to remind that according to the international law it is the courts that can only whether a genocide took place or not.
Taking this decision on a political basis can only harm the relations between countries, and aggravate the hatred and antagonism between societies.
Mr. / Mrs. Member of Parliament; I am protesting you because of your subjective, wrong and false accusation against Turkish nation. I am inviting you to carry out research about the facts. In this context, I expect you to remove M-377 draft law from your agenda, and not avoid any research and debates about the events that took place between 1915-1922.
Regards,
Ergun
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