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Letter: Just Say ‘NO!’ to the Young Turks
Dear Editor,
MSNBC TV is thinking of filling their 10 p.m. spot with Cenk Uygur, currently of “The Young Turks” radio show. The Wikipedia entry for Uygur states that “After cable news network MSNBC announced that it would replace re-airings of Countdown with Keith Olbermann with a new hour-long show…a grassroots campaign aimed at persuading MSNBC to choose Uygur as the host of that new show was launched.”
Uygur, a so-called “progressive,” vehemently denies the Armenian Genocide. He once proudly wrote that he challenged a professor at Columbia University to provide a single source that documented the genocide. According to Cenk, the professor was not able to do so.
A show called “The Young Turks” hosted by Uygur must never air on MSNBC or any station. I hope every Armenian will contact MSNBC to voice their outrage. Can you imaging a program hosted by someone who proudly calls his show “The Nazis” and who denies the Holocaust?
Please call (212-664-4444), write (MSNBC, 30 Rockefeller Plaza, NY, NY 10112), or email MSNBC (letters@msnbc.com) and tell them “NO” to Cenk Uygur and “NO” to the Young Turks. Please, in memory of the 1.5 million Armenians murdered by the Young Turks, contact MSNBC to nip this thing in the bud.
Sincerely,
Anahid Jafargian
Waldwick, N.J.
56 Comments
Although the younger generation of Turks aren’t the ones who committed the genocide they nevertheless profit from the legacy of the genocide- for instance they have our lands and we (the diaspora) will forever be second class citizens no matter where we go in the world.
It’s like how the white population of America continues to benefit from the legacy of slavery through white privilege.
For those of you who want the Armenians to get over it: That’s so convenient, people commit a crime and then tell the victims to get over it and if they don’t they are being prejudiced and hateful…hummm…
If you look at most of the comments by Armenians on this site you will see that most of them are very open-minded, loving people, who do want to make peace and move on but not without an apology, recognition and reparations and not without Turkey changing its current oppressive policies against minorities within Turkey including but not limited to Armenians. If you aren’t Armenians please don’t patronize us by telling us what we should do and how we should feel.
Thanks!
Anyone who asks me “what are you”, the answer is ALWAYS, Armenian. I don’t know that much about my own family history because I was adopted at a young age, they were from Istanbul. I will never have any way of knowing if there are indeed Genocide survivors in my biological family, but wait a moment, in a way, yes, they absolutely, 100%, were. The proof is in my very “Turkified” last name, that I know I share in common with other diasporan Armenians. The outrage is that at some time, my family was forced to either change or assume, a TURKISH name. How will I ever know what my ARMENIAN name really was? To me this is soul murder. I am in know way contrasting this to or minimizing what happened to the nearly 2 million people who were slaughtered at the hands of, whatever you want to call them. I do feel it in my own way, it cuts really deep. – Juliette
Hye, Cenk Uygar, whilst in college has ‘revisited’ the Turkish Genocide of the Armenian nation – notice that he had not ‘revised’ his feelings for the Genocide of the Armenians by the Turks… Hence, it comes to me that he has been well paid by the Turks (Turk mode of ‘operations’) and this Young Turks title shall become a source for the Turks to continue their abuse and demeaning of their victims of their Genocides (1890s until today, 2010, in denials/unrepentant and now perpetrating a Genocide again the Kurds, whom they labeled as ‘terrorists’ but who seek freedom from the tyranny of the Turk). Actually, more of the Turkish actions – that of their desperate PLOYS against the Armenians and too, their ongoing ‘in your face’ PLOYS. The latest, the Turks ‘repairs’ to our Armenian religious site at Aghtamar… the need of the Turk to show the world that they have taken on the resurrection of the Armenian church… but yet, Turks allow only one (1) Armenian religious service there – midSeptember of each year – one is already scheduled BY THE TURKS for 2010. Too, our holy edifice shall not bear the Armenian cross atop – say the Turks. Turks ‘resurrected’ our Armenian church to benefit the Turks – to make a big show to the world that our church can be visited by tourists – to visit a Turkey.. Another such ‘in your face Turk act’ is the planned Turkish religious site which Turks plan to build near the NYC September 11th ruins… add that as another ‘in your face’ action of the Turks… This action is opposed by the families of those who died. Cenk may start out as a nice, but I can not trust his motives – a Turk is a Turk is a Turk, still enmeshed in their Ottoman mentality – still ‘abusing’ the Armenian fledgling nation in ways and means that still seek to eliminate Armenians, thus eliminate the Turks need for reparations due and owing to Armenians. Turks leaderships do not deny they are seeking to regain their Ottoman empire – again. Manooshag
Juliette you cover so much in one short post: adoption, forced turkification of a family name, being cut-off from one’s heritage, identity crisis…
Thanks for sharing such a heartfelt comment.
Besides being denier of the Armenian genocide, this guy never presents the facts for the both sides when he is discussing political issue. This guy has far left wing ideas which wont help the United States. People (with his “crew”) like Cenk are trying to destroy principles that majority of people have in the United States , they deny everything that challenges their prejudices, and again they never present and argue on both sides of any issue. So please say NO the “Young Turks” on MSNBC.
What I don’t understand is what is Armenian girl doing with the Young Turks (Yerit Turker) radio show, she is smart and intelligent, but absolutely disappointing.