Turkey’s Multimillion Dollar Antigenocide Attack

AZG Armenian Daily #137, 21/07/2007

Genocide Recognition

TURKEY’S MULTI-MILLION DOLLAR ANTI-GENOCIDE ATTACK

Turkey’s multi-million dollar lobbyist Bob Livingston posted
an eight minute video on the Capitol Hill Broadcasting Network
website. Livingston’s anti-genocide diatribe is an effort to block
Congressional adoption of the Armenian Genocide Resolution (H.Res.106 /
S.Res.106), according to the Armenian National Committee of America.

In response to the Livingston attack, Armenian Genocide Resolution
lead advocates, Representatives Adam Schiff (D-CA), George Radanovich
(R-CA), Frank Pallone (D-NJ) and Joe Knollenberg (R-MI) cosigned a
July 18th letter to Congressional colleagues discrediting Livingston’s
denialist claims. The Congressional letter noted that: "For the past
seven years Mr. Livingston has been a paid lobbyist for Turkey, which
has spent millions of dollars denying what the world knows to be true –
that in the first decades of the last century a horrible genocide was
committed against the Armenian people. The factual evidence supporting
the Armenian Genocide is vast, and no effort to deny these facts –
no matter the source of the denial – will ever change history."

The letter went on to urge House members to join over 220 of their
colleagues in cosponsoring H.Res.106.

Earlier this week, The New Republic, a major national magazine, ran a
feature-length, stinging expose on the efforts of Turkish government
lobbyists to defeat the Armenian Genocide Resolution. The article,
written by Michael Crowley, provides a behind the scenes glimpse
into the multi-million dollar genocide denial industry, spotlighting
former House Minority leader Dick Gephardt and Bob Livingston as the
lead beneficiaries of Turkey’s anti-genocide campaign.