Former diplomat reveals secret State Department attacks on 1980s Armenian Genocide resolutions
A retired Foreign Service officer, U.S. Ambassador Arma Jane Karaer, has revealed a series of shocking revelations about the State Department's behind-the-scenes efforts on behalf of Turkey during the 1980s to kill Congressional initiatives commemorating the Armenian Genocide, according to now public documents circulated today by the Armenian National Committee of America (ANCA).
The revelations are part of an oral history interview with Karaer, a foreign service officer who served, among other postings during her long diplomatic career, as a commercial officer in Ankara and as the State Department's senior Turkish Desk Officer.
"We're circulating Ambassador Karaer's interview - a truly stunning example of undisguised cynicism in the face of genocide and denial - as a public service," said Aram Hamparian, Executive Director of the ANCA. "As painful as her callous remarks are to read, they do - in their candor - provide powerful insights into the depths to which U.S. officials have sunk in enforcing Turkey's genocide denial dictates. Sadly, it would seem, the pervasive attitude of expediency over morality characterized by her words remains, even today, much more the rule rather than the exception among the senior ranks of our nation's Foreign Service."
The revelations are part of an oral history interview with Karaer, a foreign service officer who served, among other postings during her long diplomatic career, as a commercial officer in Ankara and as the State Department's senior Turkish Desk Officer.
"We're circulating Ambassador Karaer's interview - a truly stunning example of undisguised cynicism in the face of genocide and denial - as a public service," said Aram Hamparian, Executive Director of the ANCA. "As painful as her callous remarks are to read, they do - in their candor - provide powerful insights into the depths to which U.S. officials have sunk in enforcing Turkey's genocide denial dictates. Sadly, it would seem, the pervasive attitude of expediency over morality characterized by her words remains, even today, much more the rule rather than the exception among the senior ranks of our nation's Foreign Service."
