Turkish Institute for Progress, why are we Turks the bunt of the world's jokes?

Turkish Progress ISIS Partnership for a safe united Turkey

ISIS Terrorists have found a safe haven in Turkey, they can get hospital treatment and more weapons in Turkey.  ISIS brings their looted items from Syria and Iraq to sell in Turkey while we re arm them to enter our neighbor's land to further bring partnership and reconciliation with all our neighbors: Syria, Iraq and Armenia
ISIS is a strategic partner of Turkish Progress to reconciliation with our neighbors.
http://www.newsweek.com/isis-and-turkey-cooperate-destroy-kurds-former-isis-member-reveals-turkish-282920

ISIS Terrorist getting medical treatment in Turkey

Erdogan's sons with top brass ISIS and Al Nursa killers

Did Obama unleashTurkey on to their Syrian neighbors?

Turkey has and always does censor free speech Turkey's
prisons house more journalists than any other country

Terrorists remain friendly with mayors of all major Turkish towns
where they bring their looted Syrian and Iraqis items to sell

Turkish Progress blockade of Armenia for 20 years is reconciliation

Despite Ankara's famous meddling in Israel's blockade of Gaza with the failed Mavi Marmara.
Over 20 years Turkey has had a blockade on Armenia

Is reconciliation really possible with double standard toward Armenia vs. Gaza

Can Turkey block the House Resoultion #154 for Truth and Justice
Recognizing the Armenian Genocide or should Turkey convince the
world they want dialogue and reconciliation with Armenia

How legal is Turkey's blockade of Armenia?

As we will no doubt be aware, the government in Ankara is launching a legal challenge to Israel's blockade of Gaza imposed in response to missile attacks by militants in that territory. Unfortunately for Turkey, this has had the effect of highlighting that it has itself for almost two decades been blockading a neighbouring country which has never committed an act of aggression against it: Armenia.

The blockade goes back to the late 1980s and early 1990s when Armenian fighters intervened to assist the Armenian majority republic of Nagorno-Karabakh which had declared independence from neighbouring Azerbaijan. Turkey, feeling the need to assist its ethnic cousins, the Azeris, closed the border with Armenia. Lately, despite some rapprochement between Yerevan and Ankara, Armenian-Turkish relations remain difficult and the two countries have no diplomatic ties.

The blockade (allied with one imposed by Azerbaijan) has had a devastating effect on the Armenian economy because of the country's dependence on outside supplies of energy and most raw materials. Compounding this is the fact that road and/or rail through Georgia and Iran are inadequate or unreliable. The country endured several years of freezing winters before the government decided in 1995 to reopen an ageing nuclear reactor at Metsamor - this in an area that is prone to earthquakes. In 1988, Armenia had been hit by one such earthquake and the subsequent blockade caused unimaginable hardship for the victims.

Recent statements from Armenia note that Turkey is still showing no signs of lifting the blockade.

So, as Turkey launches a high profile and high stakes challenge to Israel's blockade of Gaza, many people are wondering about the legality of its blockade on Armenia - and the hypocrisy.

Sources:
1. Turkey launches international legal challenge to Gaza blockade · TheJournal
2. Energy-starved Armenians risk a new Chernobyl - World, News - The Independent
3. Armenian Assembly statement on Turkish Government?s announcement - Politics - Panorama | Armenian news
4. Sarkisian complains about ‘Turkish blockade’ - Hurriyet Daily News
5. Armenia in 2010 - A Year of Uncertainty
6. Blockade of Armenia hinders development of border areas in Turkey | Armenia News - NEWS.am
7. Turkey rebukes Israel: do they remember Northern Cyprus and the Kurds?

 

Turkish Progress Institute 100 more years of denial, human rights violations and arrests of journalists

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Is Genocide Denial Censorship

or Reconciliation

 

NEW YORK, April 6, 2015 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Leaders of the Turkish Institute for Progress today applauded Rep. Curt Clawson for circulating a resolution that aims to begin the healing process between Turkish and Armenian communities in the United States and help find a durable solution that will last for the next 100 years.

"This resolution is a positive effort to create a much-needed future for Turks and Armenians in the United States and across the world," said former Rep. Solomon Ortiz, who serves as an advisor to the Turkish Institute for Progress. "During the 28 years that I served in Congress, there was never a resolution like this one that advanced reconciliation between these two countries. This measure hopes to end the century of divisiveness while strengthening the national security interests of the United States."

"Members of Congress have long sought an alternative that looks to the future and the Turkish Institute for Progress applauds this resolution for doing just that," Rep. Ortiz continued.

During his 28-year tenure, Rep. Ortiz served on the House Committee on Armed Services and as the Chairman of the Committee's Subcommittee on Readiness.

Rep. Clawson's resolution is now actively seeking cosponsors and additional support. Full text of the measure is below:

RESOLUTION

Calling on the President to work toward equitable, constructive, stable, and durable Armenian-Turkish relations for the next hundred years based upon the two countries' common interests and the United States' significant security interests in the region.

Whereas the Obama Administration has, since early 2009, sought to improve Armenian-Turkish relations;

Whereas at the start of this process, President Barack Obama had, on April 6, 2009, voiced the United States Government's expectation that the Armenia-Turkey dialogue would "bear fruit very quickly,'' but recent attempts to reestablish diplomatic relations have been unsuccessful;

Whereas while other nations in the region continue to deepen their political and economic partnerships with Iran and Russia, the United States' leverage in the region is rapidly diminishing and Turkey's geostrategic position between Europe and the Middle East has made the country an important partner in combating extremism in the region;

Now, therefore, be it

Resolved, That the House of Representatives calls on the President designate a task force comprised of Members of Congress, administration officials, and representatives from Turkey and Armenia charged with working toward equitable, constructive, stable, and durable Armenian-Turkish relations for the next hundred years, based upon the two countries' common interests and the United States' significant security interests in the region.

The Turkish Institute for Progress was formed to provide a forum for dialogue in pursuit of peace, and cooperation between Turkey and the international community. By meeting on the common ground defined by shared regional political, economic, energy, transport, scientific, technical, and cultural issues, TIP pursues a constructive dialogue to ensure that international relationships with Turkey are marked by unity and the shared pursuit of common goals. For more information, visit www.turkishprogress.org.

SOURCE Turkish Institute for Progress
http://armeniangenocide100.org/en/local-self-governments/

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Turkish Institute for Progress why its not denial

Not denialism its called reconciliation

WASHINGTON, Jan. 29, 2015 /PRNewswire/ -- Turkish Americans are joining together in Washington and New York to form a new organization, the Turkish Institute for Progress. While the official launch is still a few weeks away, spokespeople for the Turkish Institute for Progress say that the group will "demonstrate areas of international cooperation with Turkey and establish additional avenues to achieve global progress on economic, social, and security issues, including: breaking down barriers to trade between the US and Turkey, addressing regional energy dependence, and deterring the continued spread of radicalism."

The group is comprised of and funded solely by Americans, proud of their Turkish heritage. The leadership, staff, and supporters will all be dedicated to promoting facts about Turkey, its strategic importance in the region, and ways to foster a productive international dialogue.

In the coming days a website will be launched with more information about the organization, its mission, and how to get involved promoting the facts about Turkey's global importance. In the meantime, for more information on the Turkish Institute for Progress or to schedule an interview with a spokesperson from the organization, please contact Andrew Ricci of LEVICK at 202-973-1334202-973-1334.

SOURCE Turkish Institute for Progress
http://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/turkish-institute-for-progress-to-be-established-in-washington-300027866.html

http://armeniangenocide100.org/en/local-self-governments/