TURKEY’S JEWS UNHAPPY WITH ADL MOVE TO ACKNOWLEDGE "ARMENIAN GENOCIDE"
The New Anatolian
Aug 22 2007
Turkey
"We have difficulty in understanding why the Anti-Defamation League
(ADL), one of the most important Jewish organizations in the USA,
has changed stance and decided to acknowledge Armenian allegations
regarding 1915 incidents," Turkish Jewish Community announced on
Wednesday.
Releasing a statement, the Community regretted the change in ADL’s
stance and recalled ADL’s National Director Abraham Foxman’s statement
that the ADL believed that the 1915 incidents "were not a genocide".
"We have difficulty in understanding recent developments in U.S. public
and the sudden change of views that caused difference of opinion
among some Jewish organizations," the statement noted.
The statement said that Jewish organizations in the USA will maintain
their attitude not to support the Armenian thesis regarding 1915
incidents and the related resolution no 106 as they will not serve
a compromise between Turks and Armenians.
"We would like to stress that the news reports that begin with the
expression ‘Jews’ in local web-sites may be misleading, and this
view only represents the opinion of American Jewish organizations,"
the statement pointed out.
In the statement, Turkish Jewish Community stressed that the community
thinks that this matter should be discussed in academic level within
the framework of archives of all concerned parties, and continues
to support the theses that parliaments are not the ground to make
decision on historical realities.
"Our state institutions are well aware of our efforts to defend
Turkey’s interests and theses, and our efforts will continue," the
statement added.