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Volkan.
Volkan.
2.17.2006
An open letter to PBS
This is an open letter to PBS US not providing a national platform for Armenian Genocide deniers.
Dear Ms. Atlas;
As a citizen of the Modern Republic of Turkey, I appeal to you to reject the wrong-headed petition being prepared by Armenian Americans who wish to stifle all research, debate and expression that takes any position other than that the Armenian tragedy of the late Ottoman Empire constituted genocide.
The petition, available at http://www.petitiononline.com/pbspanel/petition.html, seeks to prevent the airing of a discussion produced for PBS by Oregon Public Broadcasting in which diverse views on the Armenian issue were presented.
I have noted that some people are participating in the petition just to comment that the petition is against free speech.
By no means does the Turkish seek to deny Armenians their voice to tell their story as they perceive it. Yet many Armenian-Americans work tirelessly to ensure that their view of history is the only view that shall ever be known.
If rewarded, these efforts would harm the fundamental rights of many Americans, not just Turkish-Americans, to learn an historic controversy from a plurality of viewpoints and to make up their own minds. Moreover, PBS' standards of balance and objectivity would be crushed by accepting the petition in question.
In addition to urging you to reject the petition, I therefore congratulate PBS for supporting the OPB program and urge you further to consider programming that presents views other than the
Armenian viewpoint, which, to date, has exclusively been represented in PBS programming.
Thank you for your consideration.
Kind Regards,
Volkan Ozcelik,
Just a Turkish Citizen
defending the right of mutually sharing ideas.
Dear Ms. Atlas;
As a citizen of the Modern Republic of Turkey, I appeal to you to reject the wrong-headed petition being prepared by Armenian Americans who wish to stifle all research, debate and expression that takes any position other than that the Armenian tragedy of the late Ottoman Empire constituted genocide.
The petition, available at http://www.petitiononline.com/pbspanel/petition.html, seeks to prevent the airing of a discussion produced for PBS by Oregon Public Broadcasting in which diverse views on the Armenian issue were presented.
I have noted that some people are participating in the petition just to comment that the petition is against free speech.
By no means does the Turkish seek to deny Armenians their voice to tell their story as they perceive it. Yet many Armenian-Americans work tirelessly to ensure that their view of history is the only view that shall ever be known.
If rewarded, these efforts would harm the fundamental rights of many Americans, not just Turkish-Americans, to learn an historic controversy from a plurality of viewpoints and to make up their own minds. Moreover, PBS' standards of balance and objectivity would be crushed by accepting the petition in question.
In addition to urging you to reject the petition, I therefore congratulate PBS for supporting the OPB program and urge you further to consider programming that presents views other than the
Armenian viewpoint, which, to date, has exclusively been represented in PBS programming.
Thank you for your consideration.
Kind Regards,
Volkan Ozcelik,
Just a Turkish Citizen
defending the right of mutually sharing ideas.
