Pax Turcica criticizes Pennsylvania House and Senate bills
Baku, April 8 (AZERTAC). A Pax Turcica article critical of Pennsylvania House Bill 176 and Senate Bill 47, which seek including the allegations of "Armenian genocide" in the public school curriculum, published in The Beacon, a newspaper in Central New Jersey.
The article reads: “As a Turkic-American, member of the Pax Turcica Institute, I welcome the idea of teaching about the recognized crimes against humanity, such as the Holocaust, Srebrenica and Rwanda Genocides, in our public schools. But I am deeply disappointed that the Pennsylvania House Bill 176 and Senate Bill 47, currently referred to the education committees of each chamber, include the spurious “Armenian genocide” in their proposed amendment for the state Public School Code of 1949.
The World War I-era atrocities in the Ottoman Empire were never tried by any competent tribunal and no intent to exterminate Armenians was established as required by the 1948 United Nations Convention on Prevention and Punishment of Genocide. The International Court of Justice — a primary authority to determine the applicability of the ‘genocide’ term — has never opened a case or drawn a conclusion on these genocide allegations. According to Bernard Lewis, a renowned Princeton scholar of the Ottoman history, there was no “deliberate preconceived decision of the Ottoman government” to eliminate Armenians.
Neither federal government nor Congress recognizes the alleged Armenian genocide.”
Furthermore, between 1914 and 1922, an estimated 523,955 Turks, Kurds, Azeris, and other Muslims were mass murdered by the Armenian nationalist forces seeking to create their own state in Anatolia and the Caucasus. The figure does not include those missing or buried in mass graves. So, if any arbitrary unrecognized claim of genocide is considered for teaching in state public schools, the SB 47 and HB 176 shall be amended to include the above mentioned Turkish suffering.
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