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27.03.2014 – Türk Bayrağına ve Çanakkale Ruhuna Saygısızlık İçeren ‘Tahliye’ Adlı Heykel Kaldırılmalı

by Secretary in Basın Bültenleri (Media Releases in Turkish)

ATA-A Basın Açıklaması

27 Mart 2014

“Türk Bayrağına ve Çanakkale Ruhuna Saygısızlık İçeren ‘Tahliye’ Adlı Heykel Kaldırılmalı”

ATA-A Avustralya Savaş Anıtı Müzesinde ‘Tahliye’ (the Evacuation) adıyla sergilenen 1925 yılında Melbourne’da yapılan Bronz heykel’in Türk Bayrağına ve Çanakkale’de savaşan Türk ve Avustralyalı askerlerine ruhuna bir saygısızlık olduğunu bildirdi. Çanakkale Savaşları ardından sanatçı Wallace Anderson tarafından yapılan, Anzak askerinin Türk bayrağını ayakları altına alan ‘Tahliye’ adlı heykel, ATA-A’nın konuyu Avustralya’daki Türklerin gündemine getirmesiyle tepkilere neden oldu.

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27 Mar

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27.03.2014 – Scandalous Artefact at AWM’s Collection about ANZAC campaign

by Secretary in Blog Posts, ATA Alliance's Position, Press Release

ATA-A PRESS RELEASE

March 27th, 2014

An Insult to Bonds formed in Battle

In spite of the many hundreds of thousands of Australian and New Zealanders who, travelling to ANZAC, are treated as honoured guests, even family. In spite of the genuine and deeply held love and respect Turkish people feel toward those ANZACs, and their dependents, who were after all seeking to invade and occupy the Turkish homeland. In spite of the bonds of friendship that we thought had developed over the past 100 years, we are continually disappointed at the lack of reciprocation of such feelings over the years.

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09 Mar

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AlJazeera Doco depicts Greek Ethnic Cleansing against Turks

by Secretary in Media Watch

From the mid-1950s until 1998, the Greek government used Article 19 of its Citizenship Code to discriminate against its own population, especially the Turkish ethnic minority in Western Thrace, Greece, but also immigrants to Turkey itself.

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07 Mar

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French judge assures Gül over ‘genocide denial

by Secretary in Media Watch

Debré paid a low-profile visit to Turkey last week and held a meeting with President Abdullah Gül on Feb. 14. AFP Photo

The head of the French high court, Jean-Louis Debré, has assured President Abdullah Gül that the French Constitutional Council’s decision to annul the bill penalizing the denial of Armenian genocide is a permanent one and will not change, the Hürriyet Daily News has learned.

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