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CONTACT YOUR CONGRESSPERSON NOW!

The Armenian lobby and its supporters in Congress have introduced a new "Armenian Genocide Resolution," H.Res. 252.

TCA launched another campaign and urges Turkish Americans and friends of Turkey to contact your member of Congress NOW and urge him/her NOT to co-sponsor and VOTE AGAINST for this resolution.

On this day, in 1973, Gourgen Yanikian, an elderly U.S. citizen of Armenian origin, assassinates Los Angeles Turkish Consul General, Mehmet Baydar, and Vice Consul, Bahadır Demir in Santa Barbara, California.

The Turkish Coalition of America is accepting applications for its 2010 Washington Summer Internship Program. This program provides an opportunity for Turkish American students to live and work in Washington D.C., learn about the American political process, and explore career opportunities in public affairs. Designed to enhance Turkish American participation in political life and to cultivate the future generation of Turkish American leaders, the program lasts up to 8 weeks between June-August 2010. Interns will be provided an opportunity to work in congressional offices, select governmental and non-governmental organizations. A monthly stipend will be provided by TCA.

TurkishPAC has organized a fundraiser in support of the election campaign of Judge Jay (Ceyhun) Karahan this Saturday, October 24, 2009, from 2:00 PM to 4:00 PM in the Pasha Restaurant (click here for a map).  

Judge Karahan, who is a Turkish American re-running for the Harris County Criminal Court at Law #8, needs your support.

We would like to see you there this Saturday. If you cannot attend, please send your checks made to “Re-elect Judge Jay Karahan” and mail it to the undersigned, and please vote for Judge Karahan.

Turkey closed its Armenian Border and suspended the relations between Turkey and Armenia as a consequence of the Armenian occupation of the Azerbaijani territory of Nagorno-Karabagh, in 1992.  Recently a protocol between the Turkish and the Armenian governments has been signed, which may lead to the opening of Borders and normalizations of relations between the two nations, if approved by both nations’ parliaments.

During the 2008 elections campaign, David Krikorian slung mud at the incumbent Congresswoman Jean Schmidt (R-Ohio) by claiming that "Representative Jean Schmidt had taken $30,000 in blood money to deny the genocide of Christian Armenians by Muslim Turks.”

This was of course another Armenian smear campaign, which they use against any congressional or local candidate who refuse to take for granted their narrow-minded arguments, falsified genocide claims and fanatical anti-Turkish agenda.