Aram Hamparian: Turkey should be last country to offer lectures about conduct of other nations

PanARMENIAN.Net - The Armenian National Committee of America (ANCA) circulated a memo to Congressional offices highlighting Turkey’s increasingly stark double-standard in aggressively challenging U.S. interests while continuing to dictate to American leaders what they can—and cannot say—about the Armenian Genocide.

The memo, sent by ANCA Executive Director Aram Hamparian, noted that “Turkey’s leaders reserve for themselves the freedom to act with complete disregard for U.S. interests, allies, and values, even as they dictate to us what we are allowed to say about the Armenian Genocide.” It closed with a call upon legislators to reject Turkey’s veto of the Armenian Genocide recognition and called for the adoption of H.Res.252, the Armenian Genocide Resolution.

The ANCA also stressed that Turkey should be the last country to offer lectures about the conduct of other nations, and listed a series of seven acts of violence and aggression by Turkish leaders, both at home and abroad, over the course of more than a century.