‘LET US MEET WITH THE ZORYAN INSTITUTE’

AZG Armenian Daily
05/10/2006

By Ozdemir Ince, Hurriyet, September 24, 2006, the following article
was translated from Turkish by the Zoryan Institute, which does not
necessarily agree with nor endorse the contents of the article

They all want to make me puke – Article 301 of the Penal Code, the
trial of Elif Shafak, the defense, the prosecutor, the people who
express opinions on the trial, all of them.

My poor Turkey, my poor bleeding country!

How come the Justice Ministry of this government does not prepare
an Implementation Guideline for Article 301, even though they do
everything in order to paralyze the Revolutionary Laws?

How come the EU and the mouthpieces of the European Parliament
do not want an Implementation Guide for Article 301 but insist on
the outright abolition of this Article? And our government keeps on
insisting that they won’t abolish it. I think there is a pre-meditated
cooperation here. The ones that really make me puke are our human
rights defenders, democracy apostles and their followers… This
group, which neglects criticizing the current AKP government but
instead targets the Republic when it comes to Article 301, labels as
Fascist and Kemalist all supporters of the Republic and its reforms.

There is also the group that really went to extremes like the SS as
court reporters in the name of nationalism and patriotism. They are
also the natural actors in this carnival!

When I was thinking and getting distressed about all this, I learned
from Ruhat Mengi’s editorial (Vatan newspaper, 20.09.06) that Article
301 defendant Elif Shafak had said: "When I went to the US, the
Zoryan Institute educated me, and I solved the Genocide problem." I
had read something about this elsewhere, but I had forgotten. I
always get stressed when I see the name of the instigator Zoryan
Institute. Since this institute showed the true path to Elif Shafak,
let me give you some facts about it:

The Zoryan Institute (the Zoryan Institute for Contemporary Research
and Documentation) was founded in 1982 in Cambridge, Massachusetts
in the US. There is also a Canadian Zoryan Institute (The Zoryan
Institute of Canada), founded in 1984.

These two institutes form an academic centre to do research, archive
and distribute information and documents about the recent history of
the Armenians.

The activities of the Zoryan Institute are grouped into three areas:
Genocide project, Diaspora project, Armenia project. To this end, the
Institute supports multi-disciplinary academic research, documentation,
conferences and publications. This is what it is in appearance…

As a first service, in 1984 the Zoryan Institute contributed as a
sponsor of the Armenian Genocide Court, which was known by the term
"Permanent Peoples."

According to its Internet website, the Zoryan Institute prepared a
convincing report in 1999 about the Armenian Genocide as requested by
the Canadian Parliamentary sub-committee. As you know, the Canadian
Parliament accepted the Armenian genocide, based on this report.

Again in 1999, the US House of Representatives requested the Zoryan
Institute to prepare a report deflating the statements of the Turkish
Ambassador in Washington, who had denied the Armenian genocide.

Taner Akcam’s books spewing hatred toward Turkey are among the most
important publications of the Institute. As I had written before,
aren’t there other publishers who would publish Taner Akcam? And
this is the kind of organization that trains Elif Shafak on how to
write novels.

ZORYAN INSTITUTE OF CANADA, INC., 255 Duncan Mill Rd., Suite 310,
Toronto, ON, Canada M3B 3H9, Tel: 416-250-9807 Fax: 416-512-1736,
E-mail: zoryan@zoryaninstitute.org,

From: Emil Lazarian | Ararat NewsPress