3198) Letters To The Ealing Council, Ref: Allegation Of “Armenian Genocide”

To The Ealing Council, UK
Subject : Armenian Issue, 3 Jan 2011

Madam/Sir,
The Ealing council accepted, the last month, the allegation of “Armenian genocide”. In a democracy, history is not written by political institutions but by historians. The Blois appeal (2008), signed by several hundreds of historians, from Europe, North America, and elsewhere, says:

“History must not be a slave to contemporary politics nor can it be written on the command of competing memories. In a free state, no political authority has the right to define historical truth and to restrain the freedom of the historian with the threat of penal sanctions.”. . .

Chief Executive Martin Smith seemed to share this view in an e-mail to Betula Nelson, in April 2010:

“The council is conscious that, while there is agreement that large numbers of people were tragically killed in appalling circumstances, there is a difference of opinion on whether this amounted to genocide. The council does not have an official position on this. We do not endorse the views of Armenians, but respect their right to express one.”

How the Ealing council could contradict itself during the same year?

This self-contradiction is especially disturbing, since it is an example of double standard on war crimes, based on the religion or ethnicity of the victims and perpetrators; and, at least in practice, a reward to terrorism.

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With the hope that this “recognition” will be annulled, I wish to you an happy new year.

Regards,

Maxime Gauin,
MA in contemporary history (Paris-I-Sorbonne University)
Vice-chairman of Confluence France-Turquie
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Sent: January 06, 2011
Subject: Decision of Ealing Council to officially recognize the long discredited political claim of Armenian 'genocide' as settled history

OH, EALING COUNCILLORS! HOW COULD YOU?

To: Honorable Councillor Julian Bell

Leader of the Ealing Council
c/o Labour Group Members' Room,
Ealing Town Hall, New Broadway, London, W5 2BY, England
email: julian.bell at ealing dot gov.uk

Copy: All councilors, as listed in the attachment below

Re: Decision of Ealing Council to officially recognize the long discredited political claim of Armenian 'genocide' as settled history

Dear Honorable Councillor Julian Bell,

It is difficult and painful for me, the son of Turkish survivors on both maternal and paternal sides, to hear of Ealing Council’s unfortunate resolution, based on an Armenian’s misrepresentations—i.e. Councillor Iskendarian—where Armenian war crimes, Armenian hate crimes, and their Muslim, mostly Turkish, victims, are curiously missing. If one excludes half the story, well, even the American civil war can be made to look like a genocide.

I realize that this was not a unanimous decision and that some prudent members considered the motion tabled by an Armenian (Cllr Iskanderian) one sided, without input from responsible opposing views and hence, judged it ill-advised and divisive. I am also aware of at least one councillor saying “…I have never come across a motion in my nine years on the council that so blatantly sought to pitch one community against another - especially on a subject which is highly sensitive and where no member of the council is really able to make a proper and considered judgment…” I truly appreciate those members who thought that way, but I wish they took the trouble to stay on and vote no so that this blatant and malicious fraud could be thwarted.
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In summary, if I could manage to raise a grain of doubt in your mind that the Armenian narrative may not be the whole story and that there might be another side, equally ghastly and genuine, where Armenians are the victimizers not the victims, then I consider my mission is accomplished. Thank you for reading.

Respectfully Yours,

Ergün KIRLIKOVALI
9741 Irvine Center Drive
Irvine, California 92618-4324, U.S.A.
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