AMERICAN AZERBAIJANIS AND TURKS TO PROTEST BEHIND ARMENIAN EMBASSY BUILDING

APA
April 8 2010
Azerbaijan

Washington. Isabel Levine – APA. American Azerbaijanis and Turks
have started a new campaign dedicated to the anniversary of 1915
events in Turkey, APA’s Washington DC correspondent was told at the
Diaspora organizations.

Main events will be held in Washington DC and New-York.The Diaspora
is planning to protest behind the Armenian embassy building. In the
beginning of this week the Diaspora started distributing brochures
in the US capitol, where they try to explain the real meaning of the
1915 events.

"Our first goal is to explain the US elite what that issue is and to
make them forget about it", – said a member of Diaspora Rejep Mekhmet.

According to him, the administrations in the US are using this issue
as a tool for influence on their local politics.

"But this shouldn’t be such a tool, that some US government
representatives can use as a toy. The Diaspora also thinks that US
keeps this issue on the agenda, in order to use it against Turkey
which is prospering from day to day", – he said.

Another Diaspora member Rashid Sabakh reminded that Turkey is the
key country in the region and also one of the key countries global,
and that may be a reason for US to use such tools as 1915 events as
an instrument against the country. "Turkey, a country that wants to
solve the conflicts, with the help of 1915 issue is sometimes being
represented controversially", – he said.

Besides the protest actions there will be held information sessions
about the events of 1915 in April in the University of Arkansas
in Little Rock, University of Minnesota in Minneapolis, Kent State
University in Ohio, University of Michigan in Ann Arbor, Northwestern
University in Chicago, Georgetown University and Rayburn House Office
Building in Washington DC.

The information sessions will be held with the information assistance
of Turkish professor Turkkaya Ataov, who is Professor Emeritus in
International Relations at Ankara University.