APA, Azerbaijan
June 13 2009

Armenian community in US makes another provocation against Turkey

[ 13 Jun 2009 11:39 ]
Washington. Zaur Hasanov – APA. Armenian community in the US made
another provocation against Turkey.

APA’s US bureau reports that the US-based law office of Geragos &
Geragos owned by famous lawyer of Armenian descent Mark Geragosian
addressed heirs of Ethnic Greek New York Life Policy Holders who `were
murdered’ in the Genocide perpetrated by the Ottoman Turks between
1915 and 1921.

`Prior to 1915, New York Life sold life insurance policies to
thousands of Greeks living in the Ottoman Empire. Countless Greek
policyholders were among the hundreds of thousands of Greeks who
perished in the first Genocide of the twentieth century. In the
ensuing chaos, many of the rightful heirs were unable to produce the
documentation required to claim the insurance proceeds while others
were unaware that they were entitled to any insurance benefits. In
2004, a class action settlement of $20 million which involved 2,300
Armenian New York Life policyholders with unpaid claims was awarded to
the descendents of the victims massacred in the Armenian Genocide of
1915,’ Geragos & Geragos noted in the special webpage launched for
this purpose.

This is not the first campaign launched by the US Armenian community
to damage Turkey’s image. Earlier, California State Assembly member of
Armenian descent Paul Krekorian presented a bill `Justice for Genocide
Victims’ and wanted prohibition of investments in Turkey and other
states that committed `genocide’.