ADL finds Armenian Genocide recognition untimely for now
The Anti-Defamation league (ADL) has not changed its position on Armenian genocide, according to Jess Hordes, the director of the ADL's Washington office.
"We continue to believe that there was a genocide, but there's no useful purpose in the House or the Senate passing a resolution on it at this time. It's a principled post that the better way of addressing this issue is for the Armenians and the Turks to move forward with this through the historical commission," he said.
As the diplomatic row between Israel and Turkey continues, attempts are being made by the Israel lobby in the U.S. to infuse some calm, The Jerusalem Post said in a recent article
According to the Israeli newspaper, Jewish organizations have helped Turkey in the past to lobby against the legislation in Congress to declare the event a genocide.
Turkish Ambassador to Israel Namik Tan recently told the periodical that Turkey expects Israel to "deliver" American Jewish organizations and ensure that the USCongress does not pass a resolution characterizing as genocide the massacre of Armenians during World War I
The Armenian Genocide (1915-23) was the deliberate and systematic destruction of the Armenian population of the Ottoman Empire during and just after World War I. It was characterized by massacres, and deportations involving forced marches under conditions designed to lead to the death of the deportees, with the total number of deaths reaching 1.5 million.
The date of the onset of the genocide is conventionally held to be April 24, 1915, the day that Ottoman authorities arrested some 250 Armenian intellectuals and community leaders in Constantinople. Thereafter, the Ottoman military uprooted Armenians from their homes and forced them to march for hundreds of miles, depriving them of food and water, to the desert of what is now Syria. Massacres were indiscriminate of age or gender, with rape and other sexual abuse commonplace. The Armenian Genocide is the second most-studied case of genocide after the Holocaust.
The Republic of Turkey, the successor state of the Ottoman Empire, denies the word genocide is an accurate description of the events. In recent years, it has faced repeated calls to accept the events as genocide.
To date, twenty countries and 44 U.S. states have officially recognized the events of the period as genocide, and most genocide scholars and historians accept this view. The Armenian Genocide has been also recognized by influential media including The New York Times, BBC, The Washington Post and The Associated Press.
The majority of Armenian Diaspora communities were formed by the Genocide survivors.
"We continue to believe that there was a genocide, but there's no useful purpose in the House or the Senate passing a resolution on it at this time. It's a principled post that the better way of addressing this issue is for the Armenians and the Turks to move forward with this through the historical commission," he said.
As the diplomatic row between Israel and Turkey continues, attempts are being made by the Israel lobby in the U.S. to infuse some calm, The Jerusalem Post said in a recent article
According to the Israeli newspaper, Jewish organizations have helped Turkey in the past to lobby against the legislation in Congress to declare the event a genocide.
Turkish Ambassador to Israel Namik Tan recently told the periodical that Turkey expects Israel to "deliver" American Jewish organizations and ensure that the USCongress does not pass a resolution characterizing as genocide the massacre of Armenians during World War I
The Armenian Genocide (1915-23) was the deliberate and systematic destruction of the Armenian population of the Ottoman Empire during and just after World War I. It was characterized by massacres, and deportations involving forced marches under conditions designed to lead to the death of the deportees, with the total number of deaths reaching 1.5 million.
The date of the onset of the genocide is conventionally held to be April 24, 1915, the day that Ottoman authorities arrested some 250 Armenian intellectuals and community leaders in Constantinople. Thereafter, the Ottoman military uprooted Armenians from their homes and forced them to march for hundreds of miles, depriving them of food and water, to the desert of what is now Syria. Massacres were indiscriminate of age or gender, with rape and other sexual abuse commonplace. The Armenian Genocide is the second most-studied case of genocide after the Holocaust.
The Republic of Turkey, the successor state of the Ottoman Empire, denies the word genocide is an accurate description of the events. In recent years, it has faced repeated calls to accept the events as genocide.
To date, twenty countries and 44 U.S. states have officially recognized the events of the period as genocide, and most genocide scholars and historians accept this view. The Armenian Genocide has been also recognized by influential media including The New York Times, BBC, The Washington Post and The Associated Press.
The majority of Armenian Diaspora communities were formed by the Genocide survivors.
