CHICAGO - Turks living in the United States are making telephone calls, sending facsimile messages, letters and e-mails to U.S. officials against the so-called Armenian genocide resolution expected to be discussed by the U.S. Senate soon.
With the campaign launched by the initiatives of the Turkish associations in the United States, Turks call on the White House to prevent the resolution which would provide recognition of so-called Armenian genocide indirectly.
The letter sent to U.S. President George W. Bush began with the sentence, ''on behalf of myself, hundreds of Americans with Turkish origin and myself, I would like to express deep sorrow and our concerns about the U.S. military operation against Turkish soldiers in Sulaymaniyah on July 4.''
The letter pointed to Turkey's fight against terrorism and noted that Turks living in the United States since 1970s were affected by the Armenian terrorism.
Resolutions aiming to recognize the so-called genocide allegations were brought onto agenda of the U.S. Congress every year, the letter stated.
The letter said that the British court in Malta decided that no evidence was found regarding the genocide allegations in the end of a research carried out for 3 years in 1921.
''All U.S. citizens with Turkish origin will prefer seeing the realities instead of claims,'' the letter noted.
There is a resolution aiming at indirect recognition of so-called Armenian genocide claims in the U.S. Senate comprised of 100 seats.
It is stated that the Armenian lobby will try to provide recognition of the so-called genocide together with the budget resolution by an annex to the budget resolution of the U.S. State Department.
This initiative is expected to be brought to agenda of the Senate today or tomorrow.
(BRC-AÖ) 09.07.2003