USA: Turkish Flag and Message displayed from plane during Armenian Genocide propaganda

[Turkminator]

The Turks always have a smart answer.

[Melki]

What subhumans ?
France is friend and will always be friend with Ermenistan. Fuck Enver Pacha, the only subhuman in that sad story!

[Turkminator]

What subhumans ?
France is friend and will always be friend with Ermenistan. Fuck Enver Pacha, the only subhuman in that sad story!

Enver Pasha was a prophet, a true hero for the Turkish nation.

[Melki]

Enver Pasha was a prophet, a true hero for the Turkish nation.

a prophet ? Really ??? Muhammad is not enough, you need more of them ? I don't care about your red thumbs, I only care about the truth. And Enver Pasha was a murderer.

[Armenian Bishop]

"Turkish Denial of Armenian Genocide Has Gone Crazy."

http://thearmenite.com/2016/04/turki...iam-bairamian/

After the government of Turkey spent decades paying off academics to unsuccessfully promote their denial of the Armenian Genocide, Turkish groups have resorted to ad campaigns – and sky-writing.

Seemingly connected to Fact Check Armenia [a Turkish based organization] is the Turkish Institute for Progress, which ... hired a sky writer to write out various slogans in New York City, including “101 years of geno-lie.” Clever.

The Turkish Institute of Progress ... is run by Derya Taskin, a businesswoman who ... also happens to be a deputy mayor of Paterson, New Jersey. Curiously for a deputy mayor of an American city, she also seems to be affiliated with President Erdogan’s Justice and Development Party (AK Party).

The Turkish Institute for Progress ... [has previously payed] $20,000 to Levick Communications to lobby for Armenian Genocide denial; it has likewise engaged another high-priced lobbying firm, Mercury.

[Melki]

FOR YOU ARMENIA



Young Armenians sing in French Charles Aznavour's tribute song to the land of his fathers, the land his parents had to leave because of the Turkish genocide.

[Armenian Bishop]

GEICO Skytypers formally apologized for stupidly allowing itself to be hoodwinked by The Turkish Institute for Progress, a Turkish based lobby organization behind the funding of Armenian Genocide Denial advertisements.
https://www.opensecrets.org/lobby/cl...7774&year=2015

Excerpts from the GEICO Skytypers written apology:
http://www.geicoskytypers.com/an-apology/

"Please understand, we were hired by a third-party agency to promote an event. We clearly did not understand what we were promoting. Had we taken the time to further investigate references made, we would not have accepted the project ... after realizing our own mistake, we encouraged the west coast skytyping team to forego their scheduled involvement with these activities."

"Various members of the team have been contacted through social media, messages, emails, and calls. Some have been moderate in addressing disdain for the implied support. These interactions have enabled us to gain a deeper understanding of the events that took place more than 100 years ago and caused us to consider aspects not readily available through research. These individuals and organizations have helped to educate us on the issue."

"We are clearly guilty of not taking time to research the messages before they were typed. We are guilty of not understanding the intent behind the messages. In a rush, we accepted a vendor’s assurance the content was acceptable. We’re also deeply apologetic for these messages."

[Melki]

Same song, this time in Armenian

[Armenian Bishop]

The story behind the Armenian genocide-denying skywriting above NYC,
Quoted from an April, 2016, "Daily Dot" Article.
http://www.dailydot.com/layer8/armen...ia-skywriting/

The organization that sponsored the skywriting and the dance performance is called The Turkish Institute For Progress. The organization’s website names Derya Taskin, whom News 12 interviewed, as the president and sole member, but it does not disclose its financial backers. Taskin's office rejected our repeated requests for comment, as it did to other reporters.

Last year, the same group published a sponsored post on Reuters, claiming that Russia and Armenia undermine U.S. national security interests. Reuters placed a disclaimer over the text to make clear that it took no responsibility for the content and later deleted it. The article is, however, still available at its paid source, PR Newswire, which features more “news releases” from the group that claims FactCheckArmenia.com is “a website dedicated to exposing Armenian distortions and hypocrisies.”

FactCheckArmenia.com is in fact a genocide-denial website that aims to counter historical facts about Armenian Genocide, commemorated every year on April 24. Similar to the Turkish Institute for Progress and the Turkic Platform, which pays for ads for the site since last year, the website is not transparent about who backs the campaign, and its creators hide behind proxies to conceal their identities and ignore journalists’ questions. But they have enough resources to appear as ad results of a Google search for “Armenian Genocide,” to buy promoted tweets on Twitter, and to get featured in a photo gallery on Turkey’s official news agency, Anadolu Agency.

Turkey’s/ genocide-denial campaign in the U.S. is maintained under the name of these small organizations, which gather around the Turkish American Steering Committee (TASC), where Taskin sits on the board. TASC is also instrumental for Turkish pro-government business investments in the U.S.

But the real financier of the broad lobbying effort is the Turkish government itself. A Washington Post article from 2010 states, “The Turkish government has spent millions on Washington lobbying over the past decade” for Armenian Genocide denial. A more recent account puts that tag about $5 million for annual lobbying efforts on record. Indeed, in 2014, the Turkish embassy in Washington, D.C., has paid $1.4 million to Alpaytac Public Relations company alone, according to FARA records released by the Department of Justice.

This year, the genocide-denial campaign got more aggressive after Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan’s already strained visit to Washington, D.C., turned into a PR nightmare after journalists were physically assaulted by Erdoğan’s bodyguards at the Brookings Institute. Last week, full-page ads on Wall Street Journal promoted Turkey’s denial website, and earlier, billboards that claim Armenians are liars were placed near the Armenian Genocide memorial site in Boston. The billboards were promptly removed by Clear Channel after an area resident, Elizabeth Weinbloom, complained about it on Twitter.

[Petros Agapetos]