WASHINGTON—Washington, DC-based allies of Turkish President Erdogan are doubling down on his May, 2017, attack at Sheridan Circle, attempting, once again, to prevent Americans from exercising their Constitutional right to freedom of expression.
The Turkish American Steering Committee (TASC) – taking a page from the playbook of the Westboro Baptist Church and neo-Nazi marchers in Charlottesville – is gaming America’s First Amendment, not to express its own views, but rather to obstruct the free expression of U.S. citizens set to gather this April 24th at 4:30 pm in Washington, DC’s Sheridan Circle to protest Ankara’s denial of the Armenian Genocide.
TASC has a track record of using loud dance music, songs, shouting, and even air-horns to drown out speakers at annual April 24th demonstrations. This year they have, for the first time, secured the approval of the U.S. National Park Service to engage in their disruptive activities from an area adjacent to the Armenian Genocide protest, within the actual confines of Sheridan Circle. This traffic circle, across the street from the Turkish Ambassador’s residence, is infamous internationally as the site where, less than two years ago, Turkish President Erdogan’s bodyguards brutally beat peaceful American protesters. TASC Co-Chairman Gunay Evinch is among the lawyers hired by the Turkish Government to defend it in a lawsuit brought by victims of this attack.
The organizer of the Armenian Genocide protest – the Armenian Youth Federation (AYF) Ani Chapter – was joined by the Armenian National Committee of America in arguing vigorously against the Park Service granting a permit for a counter-protest at Sheridan Circle, on Constitutional and public safety grounds. Over these strenuous objections, the Park Service has permitted TASC to occupy roughly a third of Sheridan Circle.
The AYF is expecting a strong turn-out from the local Armenian, Greek and Assyrian/Aramean/Syriac communities – all of whom remain undeterred in raising their voices for justice on April 24th in the nation’s capital. To support the peaceful protest, join them from 4:30pm to 6:30pm at Sheridan Circle, located at Massachusetts Ave. NW and 23rd St NW. Buses are available from Soorp Khatch Armenian Apostolic Church (4906 Flint Drive, Bethesda MD) at 3:15pm. For more information, email anc.gw@anca.org or ayfdcaniseniors@gmail.com
The ANCA will be live-streaming portions of the protest on its Facebook page.
Money is louder than shouting. Turkey is a vital source for US economic interests. No amount of protesting will replace economic incentives. Offer something of monetary value and watch how quickly the scenario flips.
What a clever idea, lets do it all the time.
I’d say get Hye Fighters group go there to protect our people. Then if a brawl erupts, like it did, some heads will roll.
Armenians very peaceful loving people, lets keeping that way , no violence.
This classification is in my new historical poetry book
“BRING OUT our GENOCIDED SKULLS & ARTFUL HANDS”
the opening will be celebrated on May 11, 2019, In Komitas Museum, Yerevan
Being a physician …I have learned how to classify each subject …it is part of training in medical education …
Classification of the Armenian Genocide to
Many Types During 1915-1923
Ottomans genocided every element that God created, piece by piece;
living bodies ended undefined genocided skeletons.
1st Type: Genociding Intellectuals –
They killed the most literate, around 600 of them, by crushing
their skulls open to discovering, why they were so clever and stripping
them off their clothes because the garments were European.
The Ottomans then proceeded to abuse reproductive organs.
“Genociding Intellectuals”: the date for the Armenian Genocide
was April 24, 1915, whilst the same fate befell Arab intellectuals
on May 6, 1916.
2nd Type: Genociding Wealthy Families –
They extinguished whole families from the unborn
to the elderly, confiscating homes and belongings.
3rd Type: Genociding thru Deportation to Der-Zor Desert –
They could not annihilate any more, so the Ottomans deported
people to Der-Zor dessert without food. Many were left to die on
the way.
4th Type: Genociding thru Rape –
In many other sad events, soldiers raped and left…(an example
is during the Bengali Genocide by Pakistani militants on
March 25, 1971), but Turks raped and slayed.
5th Type: Genociding Pregnant Brides, Women –
They lanced bellies of the pregnant women with their scimitars in
order to discover the sex of the unborn! Arab Beduin’s eyes
witnessed most events.
I heard from Syrian women who hailed from Dara’a, Syria, that
every night the sound of a baby-boy crying would fill the air in that
village. The Sheikh explained to them that this sound was the “Soul
of a Baby” who had been alive when his mother’s belly was ripped
open …. Ever since then, many years ago, he has cried every night!
Fiction may be, but it illustrates the degree of suffering endured by
Armenian mothers.
6th Type: Genociding Boys above 8-years old after measuring their heights-
I read the story of this man on the Internet long ago. He was an
Armenian who immigrated to Australia later and was Turkified, . . .
He wrote, “I was 12 years old then, but I was very short; they
measured my height and thought I was younger than eight.
So I was very lucky not to have been slayed then . . . ”
Those below the age of eight, once Turkified, were taken to
under a new identity become soldiers in the Turkish Army.
7th Type: Genociding Young Girls by employing them as household
unpaid servants – later using them in many other ways!
8th Type: Genociding by throwing the whole village populace into valleys.
9th Type: Genociding Identity: Turkification, . . . –
(They used Turkification on Arabs as well, which defined in
Arabic language as ‘Tattreek’).
The rest of the Armenians who were left were Turkified, changing
their name, surname, religion, language, culture, ethnicity;
(Genociding Identity: De-identification, Islamization
Languageification, Cultureification, Ethnicification, . . .)
10th Type: Genociding Skeletons –
Shipping and selling the genocided bones to factories, they
produced products. The factories that bought them should
confess….
11th Type: Genociding Buildings: Homes, Palaces, Factories, Churches,
Cathedrals, Monasteries, Schools, Domes, Altars, . . .
They transformed the best buildings to Turkish Temples or
stables, I would not call them Mosques because in the Islamic
religion it is not permitted to change Churches to Mosques
according to Khalifa Omar Ibn al-Khattab (584-644). See Index
12th Type: Genociding Ancient Sites which Existed B.C. –
They changed Portasar Temple to Gobekli Tepe.
13th Type: Genociding Lands, Gardens, Trees, . . . –
These had been planted and cultivated by Armenian hands
for millenniums.
14th Type: Genociding animal names from Latin names in their dictionary–
those, which were defined as Armeniana, Kurdistanica they said
that any animal carrying Armenian and Kurdish names before
B.C. must change to Turkish. Wild sheep called Ovis Armeniana
became Ovis Orientalis Anatolicus. Roe deer are known as
Capreolus Capreolus Armenus became Capreolus Cuprelus
Capreolus.) 15th Type: Genociding History, Archives, Books, . . . –
Turks tried to prove that Armenians never existed in their
ancient land.
16th Type: Genociding Armenian Language, Alphabets, Culture, Music,
Arts, . . .
Well-known genocide music “Adana” with Armenian lyrics was
reinvented as Turkish music, but was discovered late!
The Ottoman government ordered genociders to cut the tongues
of those who spoke other than Turkish.
17th Type: Genociding Names of Mountains, Cities, Streets, . . . –
Ararat’s name was changed to Agre This was refused by Geo
graphical Maps, History books, Encyclopedias, Dictionaries,
Wikipedia … because it is Biblical-God defined it as Ararat and
never Agre. No human agreed to change Ararat. The word Agre
was not even accepted by the Internet.
I say, “Who can agree on something unagreeable?”
18th Type: Genociding Statues, Tombs, Khachkars (cross stones) –
Insulting the skeletons of the dead from centuries before the birth
of Christ. They took grave stones, some those expensive stones
and marbles were used to build Ottoman homes.
19th Type: Genociding Wealth: Gold, Insurances, Bank accounts in many
countries including in Great Britain, . . .
20th Type: Genociding Possessions –
The Ottoman government took possession of all “abandoned”
Armenian goods and properties, which no-one was allowed to
claim later.
21st Type: Armenian Orphans –
After the genocide of 1915, Turkish military followed Armenian
orphans into Ottoman occupied territories, searching Beduin
tents, and orphanages in Lebanon, Syria, and Iraq to Turkify or
annihilate them, see Index.
Recent genetic studies prove that almost 10% of Turks carry Armenian genes if not more!
This classification should be entered under the word ‘Genocide’ in the
Oxford and Cambridge Dictionaries as well as in the
Merriam–Webster of the USA.
By©Sylva Portoian, M.D. – April 24, 2010
We should not protest for granting the anti Armenian protest permit, we should be ready for them and put them down like dogs if they attempt to do any harm to our protesters..
We should send a message to Erdogan and all Turks that we won’t lay down like lambs.
I believe there should be a complaint to the American authorities for granting such a permit to the Turks, although in a formal way. However, I agree with you that we should be ready for the Turkish thugs and give them their lesson if and when required.
Do not be barbaric that in turkey no freedom of speech , we are now in America , here is everything is free.
We, as Armenians, should be ready for any provocative action by Turkish thugs sponsored by their criminal head called Erdogan.
We were ready we are triple times,go
ARMENIANS GET READY TO KICK TURKISH ASS!!!!!!!!!!! DO NOT LET THEM THREATEN YOU OR TOUCH YOU!!!!!!!!!!! TAKE THE HYE FIGHTERS MIXED MARTIAL ARTS AND HYE ROLLERS MOTORCYCLE CLUB WITH YOU!!!!!!!!!!!! BE PREPARED!!!!!! PUT THOSE DOGS DOWN IF THEY DARE APPROACH OR ATTACK YOU!!!!!!!!!!!
go ahead maje my day