May 27, 2002

Dear Honorable Members of the Parliament:

Ref. Motion No. 482. Armenian Lobby attempts to table bill in the House of Commons.

I have read the views of some of the Honorable Members, which seem to have been drafted by the aggressive Armenian Lobby which has been very influential in distorting historical facts. While views of some Armenian Historians were noted in the debate, the views of other historians who disagree were excluded. Some of the views expressed have already been proven by historians to be false These contrasting views on claimed “facts” have been completely neglected in this account.

I was unable to find a single reference in the debate concerning the fact that about half a million "Ottoman Muslims" were massacred by  Armenian militants who were armed and supported by Imperial Russia and France whose armies occupied the East and South east of the Ottoman Empire. In fact, the massacres were started by the Armenian militants and a counter-attack  took place by local Muslim residents and the nationalist empire leaders conducted forced relocation of the Armenians in one of the bloodiest and saddest conflicts in history. This conflict reduced the population of the once large Ottoman Empire to about 12 million by the end of the Great War.  The massacres of Muslims were not taken into account in those days since they were not considered to be worthy of account by the missionary-dominated Christian Colonial powers during the Great War.  You will discover that every Muslim household, mainly ethnic Kurds and Turks in Anatolia, lost family members during the Armenian conflict.  The way in which Muslims were killed by Armenian militants was not forgotten by most Muslim members of present-day Turkey, albeit in large part due to the Modern Turkish government's resolution for its citizens not to dwell on the atrocities committed by both Armenian and Muslim members of the Ottoman Empire, a fragile attempt for them to live in peace and harmony again in the 1920s.

There  are a considerable number of Turkish Canadians who live in Canada. Due to the large ethnic and political diversity of Turkish immigrants, they have not formed  aggressive lobbies comparable to the Armenian Lobby in Canada and the US.

However, our community is significantly large and growing, and we have been most disappointed by being targeted relentlessly by racist and terrorist acts of militant Armenian lobbyists in Canada. We were also very much dismayed that some of the members of Parliament fail to see anything wrong with bringing a century-old conflict to further the tensions between Armenian Canadians and Turkish Canadians.. It is doubtful that Canadian politicians have anything to gain in strengthening ethnic nationalism in Canada. I would like to suggest that those politicians who court such militant nationalism may become tools of lobbyists and may eventually be disgraced by the peaceful majority of multiethnic, multicultural Canadians.