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3 - Use the following prepared message, courtesy of GTAAG:

As a member of the Georgian Turkish-American community, I would like to express my concerns about the draft resolution submitted to the House of Representatives claiming that the Ottoman Empire committed “genocide,” massacring 1.5 million Armenians in Anatolia between the years 1915 and 1923.  I would like to request that you vote against the passage of such a resolution because of the numerous historical flaws it contains.

There is no proof whatsoever indicating that the Ottoman government ever ordered the massacre of Armenians.  In the 1920’s, Armenian revolutionaries – who also massacred over 500,000 Turks between 1914 and 1921 – attempted to implicate the government in massacres by trying to pass off forged Ottoman documents as genuine.  Armenians continue to dishonestly reference these counterfeit “sources” in a vain attempt to prove their allegations. 

Furthermore, many Armenian deaths did not occur as a result of the Ottoman’s 1915 relocation decree, but were due to disease, famine, and inter-communal warfare.  In fact, the Ottomans reversed their relocation policy in 1918, resettling many displaced Armenians to their original homes, kicking out the new Turkish inhabitants who were often refugees themselves, victims of ethnic cleansing in the Balkans.  Violence between Armenians and Turks continued until 1921 – not 1923 – and ended with the signing of the Treaty of Kars. 

Armenian accounts conveniently “forget” to mention that they contributed over 150,000 volunteers to fight in Allied armies and that the first blood was spilled in 1914 and 1915, when Armenian militants aided by the Russians, attacked the Turkish cities of Kars, Ardahan and Van, massacring over 100,000 Turks.  It was only after this slaughter that the Ottomans ordered the relocation, an action similar in nature to the Japanese Internment. 

Armenian claims that 1.5 million Armenians were killed is likewise fraudulent.  Ottoman and European census data shows that the entire Armenian population was not even 1.5 million!  In fact, demographic estimates place the total Armenian deaths – not just those due to massacre – at roughly 600,000.  The Armenian lobby unjustly blames all Armenian losses on the Ottomans, oblivious of the Armenian revolution’s own war crimes.

Now, Armenians are asking the American Government to declare that Armenians were victims of genocide.  Not only is such a statement untrue to facts, but insulting to the memory of our forefathers butchered by Armenians.  All humans are equal before God - it would be a grave mistake for America to remember the Armenian dead, while failing to remember Turkish dead.

Armenians should not be allowed to manipulate history through political resolutions. I ask that you not let yourself be made part of the politicized distortion of history, and that you vote against any resolution that aims to blame the Ottoman government of genocide.

Respectfully Yours,

(Your name here)