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Book Presentation:
The Genocide of Truth Continues..But Facts Tell the Real Story (2)

"...my objectives over the years has always been not to accuse or defend any faith, natonality or race. I hate rracist and religious fanatics, who prefer to hide behind state ideologies or books. I respect those using their own intelligence, respecting ethical and human values, such as NOT TO LIE but SPEAK THE TRUTH and defend the innocents, against charlatans of GLOBAL ETHICS.’’
the_genocide_of_truth
By Sükrü Server AYA
Published by Derin Yayınevi. 2010
16 January 2011, Bizim Tepe İstanbul

Review by
Yuksel OKTAY

A second presentation of the above referenced book took place at Robert College Alumni Center Bizim Tepe, on a rainy Sunday afternoon in İstanbul (1). The notice for the presentation was received from Talas American High
School mail group (the second 2050 group, forwarding the message from the first 1889 group). with a message that a note for attendance should be sent to Selim Kalafat, a Talas graduate, which I duly did (2). Getting to
Yeditepe via public transport from Kozyatağı was not easy but fun – taking a minibus to Üsküdar, than a boat accross the Bosphorous to Beşiktaş, spending a couple of hours at the magnificient Bahçeşehir University
Barbaros Library near the Beşiktaş piers, full of students on a Sunday, bus to Arnavutköy and lunch at the corner restauarant near the bus stop and a chance encounter.

After breakfast and reading several newspapers, I asked the attendant where Bizim Tepe was, a place I had never been to before. He did not know, but a young lady accross from my table said, ‘’It is high on the hill, near Ulus and Kuruçeşme, and the easiest way is to go through our garden.’’. After we paid our bills, we walked out together which gave me a chance to chat with them. The lady was a graduate of Robert College and her husband, a graduate of Tarsus American College (TAC). What a coincidence, I told them, stating that I was also a graduate of TAC as we
climbed the stairs when we found out that the elevator to the upper street was not working. We walked through beautiful gardens and next to a large pool, and stopped in front of a beautiful house, right on the hills of Arnavutköy overlooking the Bosphorous. Hasan Hazerdaroğlu, TAC 89, gave the keys of his car to the chauffer and told him to take me to Bizim Tepe.

What a wonderful gesture, I said to myself, and thanked to Hasan and his wife. A truly TAC tradition of helping fellow graduates.

The conference room on the second floor of Bizim Tepe was full with participants, perhaps over 100, with copies of Sükrü Aya’s book lined on the table together with copies of the booklet‘’Armenian Fabrication.’’. The meeting was opened by the head of the Alumni Center, Ayşe Hanım, who introduced Nuri Çolakoğlu as the guest speaker. Çolakoğlu stated that he was a 1962 graduate of Robert College, the year when he went to Ankara Siyasal Bilgiler Fakultesi with 4 other graduates, all wanting to be diplomats. Consul General, who was murdered by an Armenian fanatic in 1973 in California, Bahadır Demir (3) was one of the members of the group.

Then, Çolakoğlu mentioned that Sükrü Aya was a 1954 graduate of Robert College, and Prof Talat Halman, Prof. Türkkaya Ataöv were both his classmates. After stating that he has been following the Armenian issue himself, welcomed everyone to the presentation and praised Sukru Aya for his efforts.

Sükrü Aya thanked everyone for coming to the presentation and stated that the book was intended for those who speak without knowing the truth about the Armenian issue, especially those living outside of Turkey. He made
reference to the Kanal B TV program where Hayrettin Karaca and Muazzez Hilmiye Çığ spoke about the Armenian issue and also to his Armenian friend who wrote the preface to his book. Referring to his earlier book, Aya
stated that he had used 2,000 references from over 30,000 pages from books by foreigners for his first book which after the publication reached to 60,000, hence the reason for his second book.

Aya also mentioned that the booklet prepared by a group in the US, Concerned People to Set the Record Straight (CPTSTRS), headed by Sevgin Oktay (Tac 54) and paid for a businesman Mustafa Ataç was also available for those interesed. He also made reference to the
http//www.armenians-1915.blogspot.com which has ‘’Genocide of Truth’’ available and thousands of articles on the subject.

Two slide presentations were made. The first one was on Artvin Pekin, an Armenian Turk who had set himself on fire to protest ASALA murders and had died in 1982. The second one was ‘’A Leaping Tour of the Otoman History’’,
starting with the arrival of American ships to Ottoman controlled Mediterrenean Sea, many Armenian revolts (4), the Re-location of Armenians and the British assault on Dardanelles in 1915, with many events in between. The presentation ended with a series of questions that need to be answered.

This was another excellent presentation and I salute Sukru Bey for all of his efforts. It is too bad that there were no members from the Talas or Tarsus alumni or any reporter, as far as I know.

Yüksel Oktay
17 January 2011
İstanbul

Notes: (1) An unfinished commentary on the December 15, 2010 book presentation is given below.

(2) Many graduates of Talas and Tarsus and other Board/SEV American High Schools in Turkey are involved in setting the record straight on the Armenian issue.

(3) A Letter was sent to the President of the United States and members of the U.S. Congress in 1973 by the Federation of Turkish-American Associations in New York, condeming the incident.

(4) The slide presentation indicated that the first Zeytoon revolt (the town now is called Süleymaniye) in 1895, followed many others accross eastern Anatolia, which is never mentioned by the supporters of alleged Armenian genocide. However, the presentation did not mention the 1909 Armenian uprisings and killing on both sides in Adana.

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Book Presentation 1-

The Genocide of Truth Continues..
But Facts Tell the Real Story –

Published by Derin Yayınevi. 15 December 2010, Ankara

The new book is the second volume of ''The Genocide of Truth'' published in 2008 (1). A Turkish version of the book ''Soykırım Tacirleri'' was also published in 2009.

The book presentation, hosted by Sinan Ogan, the President of TURKSAM (2) started around 15:00 at the Meeting Room of TURKSAM with the attendance of 100 over participants. Among the audience were Prof. Dr. Yusuf Halacoğlu, Amb Ömer Lütfi Lütem, Prof. Jeremy Salt, Prof. Kemal Çelik, Amb. Melih Berk, Mustafa Ataç, Representatives from the Ukranian and Russian Consulates, Hüseyin Avni Yazcan (representing, he said Azmi Guran, long time resident of Switzerland and one of the şövalyes) and many other distiguished academicians, writers, and reporters.

The presentation was opened by Amb Ali Hikmet Alp as the moderater, with a short commentary that the alleged Armenian Genocide is one of the issues that keeps a lot of people busy. He stated that he took interest in the
subject during his youth but could not follow on it properly due to his job requirements.. Sükrü Server Ata also spoke breifly in between signing his new book. He made reference to the new group in the US, Concernd People
to Set The Record Straight
(www.cptstrs.org), stating that may be 10 are active members (3). In one of the hanouts, Aya writews the following, which sums up his reason for writing the books:

‘’In short Gentelmen, my objectives over the years has always been not to accuse or defend any faith, natonality or race. I hate rracist and religious fanatics, who prefer to hide behind state ideologies or books. I respect those using their own intelligence, respecting ethical and human values, such as NOT TO LIE but SPEAK THE TRUTH and defend the innocents, against charlatans of GLOBAL ETHICS.’’

Sinan Ogan, spoke briefly and and after welcoming the participants, he introduced Prof. Talat Halman to present his opening speech.

Talat Halman first stated that this is a sensitive and a difficult issue since it has been turned into another Crusade, in fact the most successful one. Referring to the Armenians who were an integral part of the Ottoman society, Halman mentioned Vartan Paşa, who wrote the first Turkish novel and that the Postal service was started by an Armenian, and many Armenians were elected to the Parliament and were appointed as Ministers,.

After Halman's presentation, the Moderator asked Sinan to say a few words. Two short video’s were presented, the first one the 1957 movie, "’Something of Value’’ where a comparison of horrible treatment of Kenyans by the British and the just treatment of the Armenians by the Ottomans. A power point presentaion with a detailed information on the Armenian issue prepared by Şükrü Aya was also shown. Unfortunatley, Elif Derbeder, the GM of Deriner could not attend the presentation.

I had to leave early due to another committment scheduled for 17:00 PM and missed the comment and question and answer session. I trust these will be summarized by others so that the full story can be told and concerned
people disseminate the information exchanged at the presentation. The absence of representatives from media, except a few, and Prof. Dr. Türkkaya Ataöv, were noticable, despite a personal invitation by this writer, perhaps due to health reasons. I hope the same book presentation will be repeated in Turkey where Prof. Ataöv could be the main speaker, since he has written about the Armenian issue for many years and lectured all over the world more then anyone in Turkey

Yüksel Oktay
17 December 2010
İstanbul

Notes:
(1) The Genocide of Truth by Sukru Server Aya, published on
(2). TURKSAM – Uluslar arası Ilişkiler ve Stratejik Analizler Merkezi –is a very active Think Tnak with several institues under its umbrealla, inclding the Energy Research Institute.
(3)A 32 page booklet prepared by the CPTSTRS was also available at the
presentation with copies of earlier books.


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