{"id":10043,"date":"2016-10-09T09:48:31","date_gmt":"2016-10-09T09:48:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ancnews.info\/?p=10043"},"modified":"2016-10-09T09:48:31","modified_gmt":"2016-10-09T09:48:31","slug":"anc-australia-responds-after-coverage-of-turkish-groups-expulsion-from-anti-racism-campaign","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ancnews.info\/?p=10043","title":{"rendered":"ANC Australia responds after coverage of Turkish group&#8217;s expulsion from anti-racism campaign"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">SYDNEY: The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/ancaustralia\/?fref=ts\">Armenian National Committee of Australia<\/a> (ANC Australia) has moved to clarify the circumstances surrounding the expulsion of the Australian Turkish Advocacy Alliance (ATAA) from the Australian Human Rights Commission&#8217;s (AHRC) anti-racism <!--more Continue reading \/ \u0531\u0574\u0562\u0578\u0572\u057b\u0568 \u2192--> campaign, \u201cRacism. It Stops With Me.\u201d.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The ATAA is an Ankara-funded Turkish lobby group, which works actively to deny the Armenian Genocide within the Federal Parliament of Australia and several Australian State Parliaments.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">After news of the group\u2019s expulsion from the AHRC campaign broke this week, three months after the AHRC decided to expel the ATAA in July of this year, ANC Australia was asked by media to comment, as it was its submission to the AHRC that ultimately led to the ATAA dismissal.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">ANC Australia has since revealed to media sources that it was made aware at the beginning of 2016 that the ATAA had joined the AHRC\u2019s \u201cRacism. It Stops With Me.\u201d campaign as a \u2018partner\u2019, despite it openly denying the Armenian Genocide as well as the genocide of the Greek and Assyrian Christian minorities in Ottoman Turkey.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">ANC Australia Honorary Chairman, Greg Soghomonian revealed that the ATAA\u2019s membership in this campaign was brought to his Committee&#8217;s attention after individual attempts to object to the ATAA\u2019s inclusion in this campaign were ineffectual and rejected by the AHRC.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\u201cThis is not new \u2018news\u2019 as the ATAA was expelled from this anti-racism campaign in July after our submission to the AHRC,\u201d said Soghomonian. \u201cIt is also old news that the Turkish government-funded ATAA is an organisation which has as one of its principal objectives the denial and obfuscation of the Armenian Genocide.\u201d<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\u201cAs genocide and genocide denial, being the final act of that crime, is one of the most ultimate forms of racism, we found the inclusion of the ATAA as a \u2018partner\u2019 in this worthwhile anti-racism campaign of the AHRC to be completely incompatible with the Commission&#8217;s charter, and just plainly wrong on a number of levels,\u201d continued Soghomonian.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">In addition to the ATAA\u2019s repeated Armenian Genocide denial activities, and the fact that it is funded by the Turkish government, it also publicly accused all Armenian-Australians of \u201cundermining multicultural harmony\u201d by calling for recognition and condemnation of the Armenian Genocide.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Accordingly, detailed and numerous submissions as well as personal representations were made by ANC Australia to the AHRC to have the ATAA removed as a \u2018partner\u2019 of this campaign. This directly resulted in the AHRC in July of this year terminating its \u2018partnership\u2019 agreement with the ATAA, and calling on the ATAA to remove from its website all representations of its previous association as its conduct was incompatible with the stated objectives of said campaign.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\u201cOur dealings with the AHRC showed it to be a very professional organisation, and due to this experience, we are assured it will scrutinise applicants for such campaigns more carefully in the future,\u201d said Soghomonian. \u201cWe accepted they had a process to assess submissions such as ours and we therefore stayed the course until we received the just result.\u201d<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">On why this wasn&#8217;t made public by ANC Australia in July, Soghomonian explained: \u201cWe did not wish to make it public for the sake of publicity alone, as we don&#8217;t believe in delivering publicity to a genocide denialist organisation like the ATAA. There are other ways to ensure that their true colours are made known to intended circles.\u201d<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.abc.net.au\/worldtoday\/content\/2016\/s4552410.htm\">Click here for recent ABC Radio coverage of this story.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>SYDNEY: The Armenian National Committee of Australia (ANC Australia) has moved to clarify the circumstances surrounding the expulsion of the Australian Turkish Advocacy Alliance (ATAA) from the Australian Human Rights Commission&#8217;s (AHRC) anti-racism<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":10044,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[115],"tags":[131],"class_list":["post-10043","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-anc-australia"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.8 - 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