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Identity Theft Grand Slam Non-Partisan Website Devoted to Armenian Affairs, Human Rights and Democracy Keghart Identity Theft Grand Slam Non-partisan Website Devoted to Armenian Affairs, Human Rights https://keghart.org/identity-theft-grand-slam/ and Democracy IDENTITY THEFT GRAND SLAM Posted on July 5, 2014 by Keghart Category: Opinions Page: 1 Keghart Identity Theft Grand Slam Non-partisan Website Devoted to Armenian Affairs, Human Rights https://keghart.org/identity-theft-grand-slam/ and Democracy Editorial, 11 July 2014 Thanks to the Internet the invasion of privacy has become a commonplace bane of our lives. The criminals who try to steal our identities usually have financial gain in mind. Recently there was an identity theft on a grander scale: a theft far, far more ambitious, virulent, and far reaching. The identities stolen were that of national origin. There were 16 such simultaneous thefts. The criminal was none other than the Republic of Turkey. This is how the heist started: Five years ago a researcher in Brantford (100 kilometers west of Toronto) discovered that about 16 “Turk” internees from World War I period were buried in that city’s Mount Hope Cemetery. The news caught the eye of Ali Riza Gunay, the eager-beaver Turkish consul in Toronto. The diplomat realized he had hit a jackpot: his superiors had recently sent a directive to all Turkish diplomats to search in the countries where they served for places, events, and people linked to Turkey. Editorial, 11 July 2014 Thanks to the Internet the invasion of privacy has become a commonplace bane of our lives. The criminals who try to steal our identities usually have financial gain in mind. Recently there was an identity theft on a grander scale: a theft far, far more ambitious, virulent, and far reaching. The identities stolen were that of national origin. There were 16 such simultaneous thefts. The criminal was none other than the Republic of Turkey. This is how the heist started: Five years ago a researcher in Brantford (100 kilometers west of Toronto) discovered that about 16 “Turk” internees from World War I period were buried in that city’s Mount Hope Cemetery. The news caught the eye of Ali Riza Gunay, the eager-beaver Turkish consul in Toronto. The diplomat realized he had hit a jackpot: his superiors had recently sent a directive to all Turkish diplomats to search in the countries where they served for places, events, and people linked to Turkey. The idea was to burnish the questionable image of Turkey by building “bridges” to countries all over the world. The “Turkish” interns would eminently fill the bill. There was also a huge bonus: Ankara saw the Turkish internees as a whip to lash Canada for recognizing the Genocide of Armenians. To underline their nefarious intent, the mandarins in Ankara decided to erect a Turkish monument in the cemetery. Upon learning of the plot, Ontario Armenians and Alevis launched a campaign to stop it: further research by the Brantford historian soon revealed that the internees were Kurdish Alevis who had emigrated to Canada just before WWI and often lived in the houses of Armenians who had been their friends back in “old country” and had encouraged them to flee Ottoman persecution for freedom in Canada. Page: 2 Keghart Identity Theft Grand Slam Non-partisan Website Devoted to Armenian Affairs, Human Rights https://keghart.org/identity-theft-grand-slam/ and Democracy About 25 Toronto-area Armenian activists initiated a campaign in early July 2013 to stop the Turkish monument. They met Alevi leaders, including Suleyman Guven, editor of the “Yeni Hayat” Alevi newspaper and visited the cemetery, along with Alevis, and interviewed the Brantford researcher who repeated that the internees had been Kurd Alevis. The Armenians also launched a petition and sent letters to the local MP, to the minister of multiculturalism and other officials of the federal, provincial and municipal governments, including Brantford Mayor Chris Friel and his council. The Armenian group then invited to a meeting Toronto-area Armenian political parties to discuss how to collectively react to the Turkish farce. Mike Kharabian, the head of the Ramgavars attended, in addition to Vazken Terzian, a member of the Armenian Revolutionary Federation. The latter in unofficial capacity. Upon the request of the “Stop the Fake Monument” group, Hye Tadd was invited to the activists’ second meeting. At that meeting, Hye Tadd representative Nshan Atikian dismissed the work that the activists had done and informed the group that Hye Tadd had been following the issue for several years. He almost implied that the activists were interfering with the good work of Hye Tadd. Assuming the campaign was in good hands, the activists’ group disbanded, although several of its members, including the editorial board of Keghart.com, kept an eye on developments. Facing bad publicity and solid resistance from the Armenian and Alevi communities, the Turkish consul changed his tack and suggested a modest plaque, instead of a loud monument. Meanwhile, the Brantford City Council decided to obtain the federal government’s view before proceeding. The issue became dormant. The Turkish project was silently revived this spring (from modest plaque to tombstone). The Brantford City Council heard from Mr. Guven of “Yeni Hayat” and the imam of the Brantford mosque about a proposal to install two tombstones in sector of the cemetery where the Alevis were buried. The Imam insisted that the people buried were Muslims. Mr. Guven, who presented ample proof, made it clear that the interned were Alevis, thus not Muslim or Turk. The council voted to hold a meeting in early June to decide on the date of a second meeting which would be the final word on the Turkish-initiated project. But suddenly, on June 11, it was announced in the “Brantford Examiner” that at its first meeting in June, the council had decided to give permission to two tombstones—one for the Muslims, the other for the Alevis. Each group would cover its expenses. Alevis were not even informed of the council’s final decision, said Mr. Guven. How the two tombstones idea was expedited and engineered by Mayor Friel remains a mystery: throughout the controversy, the mayor had been close to Consul Gunay. The mayor had complained that he didn’t want to see Brantford enmeshed in “international” politics, although for several years he had been playing footsy with Mr. Gunay. Perhaps he didn’t know that the very job of Mr. Gunay is international politics. The mayor also crossed verbal swords with Mr. Guven who publicly accused the mayor of pro-Turkish bias. While the two tombstones plan was being approved, the Armenian National Committee of Canada Page: 3 Keghart Identity Theft Grand Slam Non-partisan Website Devoted to Armenian Affairs, Human Rights https://keghart.org/identity-theft-grand-slam/ and Democracy (ANCC) had been presumably working behind the scenes. The “Brantford Expositor” said that in addition to “discussions with Turkish representatives, the federal government has also heard from representatives of the Canadian-Armenian community”. Councilor Phil Coleman said that the Brant MP “believes the Armenian Community has no issue with a stone or plaque going up on the site but has insisted that whatever is put on the plaque must be historically accurate.” Was that lame stance the essence of ANCC’s attitude? Was the milquetoast response the best ANCC could do to stop the Turkish propaganda project? And before one could say “Recep Tayyip Erdogan”, a slick “Muslim” monument was planted in the plot where Alevis are buried: a Turkish political plot over an Alevi plot. To celebrate, the Turkish Federation in Toronto bused some of its members to the inauguration (June 22) of the “Muslim” tombstone which had the Turkish flag etched at its top. Although it was supposed to be a Muslim ceremony officiated by the local Arab imam, three Turkish imams from Toronto and Hamilton took over the ceremony and made speeches in Turkish, referring to the Alevis as Turkish martyrs (“shaheeds”) similar “to the people who liberated the homeland (‘vatan’)” meaning Turkey. Meanwhile, the Turkish community held a victory dance and stomped all over the cemetery, fluttering at least eight over-sized Turkish flags…celebrants wore red tee-shirts with the Turkish star- and-crescent blazing on them; others wore red jackets with the Turkish flag. Too late the Palestinian imam realized that the Turkish community and its federation had hijacked the “Muslim” ceremony into a Turkish “chifteh telli”. Mayor Friel, who had attended the Turkish requiem-fiesta together with Councilors Dave Neumann and Vince Bucci, told to Mr. Guven in an email a few days later: “Turks absolutely politicized the process and much to my disgust. We have severed any remaining contacts with their representatives…Brantford Muslims were blindsided as I was.” Too late, Mr. Mayor; too late to wake up and smell the Turkish coffee. The $4,500 Turkish monument is now comfortably encased in the plot where no Turk is buried. While the Turkish consul and his friends were pretending the monument was in honor of Muslims, the Turkish Federation and the 100 Turks bused in from Toronto gave away the game through their words and misbehavior, and called a spade a spade: the monument was Turkish. The Turkish attendees also exposed the hypocrisy of the Turkish government and its representatives in Canada. To emphasize the point, local Turkish TV and radio provided full coverage of the “Muslim” ceremony and accurately called the tombstone “Turkish monument”. On “Turkuaz TV”, a Turkish Federation spokesman said: “We meant to erect a Turkish monument. As a first step we put the crescent-and- star as the symbol of our Turkish flag. We want to commemorate our martyrs.” Anatolian Radio (June 21) invited its listeners to attend the “Ottoman Turkish Internment” ceremony in Brantford.
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