Desecrating President Woodrow Wilson’s Legacy

Treaty of Lausanne

The Treaty of Lausanne was a peace treaty signed in Lausanne, Switzerland on July 24, 1923, that settled the Anatolian and East Thracian parts of the partitioning of the Ottoman Empire by annulment of the Treaty of Sèvres (1920) that was signed by the Constantinople-based Ottoman government.

Wilsonian Armenia

Wilsonian Armenia refers to the boundary configuration of the Armenian state in the Treaty of Sèvres, drawn by U.S. President Woodrow Wilson. The Treaty of Sèvres was a peace treaty signed on 10 August 1920 by some of the Allies of World War I. However, the final treaty was not signed by the United States of America and was never ratified by the Ottoman Empire due to internal conflict.
The proposed state incorporated Erzurum, Bitlis, and Van Provinces, which were parts of the region referred to as Ottoman Armenia (also referred to as Western Armenia). This region was extended to the north, up to the west side of Trabzon Province to provide the Democratic Republic of Armenia with an outlet to the Black Sea at the port of Trabzon.
The Turkish War of Independence forced the former wartime Allies to return to the negotiating table prior to the ratification of the treaty. The parties signed and ratified the Treaty of Lausanne in 1923, which annulled the Sèvres Treaty, and also established the current borders of Turkey. This included the previously established eastern borders of Turkey as agreed by all parties by the Treaty of Brest-Litovsk, Treaty of Alexandropol, signed on November 2, 1920, the Treaty of Moscow (1921) and the Treaty of Kars, signed on October 23, 1921.

Desecrating President Woodrow Wilson’s Legacy Today…

WASHINGTON–Citizens from across the United States are asking their Members of Congress to look into the controversial decision by the Woodrow Wilson Center to award Armenian Genocide denier, Turkey’s Foreign Minister Ahmet Davutoglu, with their public service award, reported the Armenian National Committee of America (ANCA).
Through an ANCA Action Alert, Armenian American and other anti-genocide activists are expressing “profound anger and disappointment” over the Woodrow Wilson Center’s plans to travel to Turkey to bestow the award on Davutoglu, who had recently openly threatened the United States against speaking honestly about the Armenian Genocide.
This award dishonors President Wilson’s vision of justice for the Armenian nation.Mr. Davutoglu represents a government that, in its aggressive denial of the Armenian Genocide and ongoing obstruction of justice for the Armenian nation, makes a mockery of the Wilson Center and its founding commitment to fostering scholarship commemorating ‘the ideals and concerns of Woodrow Wilson.
Mr. Davutoglu leads a Foreign Ministry that reflects and actively reinforces the anti-Armenian hatreds and intolerances that fueled the Armenian Genocide in the first place, noting that the Turkish Embassy in Washington, DC hosted a group of demonstrators who insulted and mocked Armenians gathered on April 24th, Armenian Genocide Remembrance Day, to mark the murder of 1.5 million men, women, and children, and the exile of a people from their ancient homeland.

The Woodrow Wilson Center receives one-third of its annual funding from Congress. Senators and Representatives are being encouraged to “formally investigate this matter and to share [their] concerns on this deeply troubling development directly with the leadership of the Woodrow Wilson Center.

Is the Woodrow Wilson Center seeking to discredit
the Treaty of Sèvres on its 90th anniversary
by honoring Turkish Foreign Minister Ahmet Davutoglu?

Anyone or any organization that attempts to help Armenians has to be infiltrated by Turkish blood money… Turks today – in your face – enjoy being able to distort the truths (as is always). And yet, these Turks are insulting the United States of America – insulting the service of Woodrow Wilson to Armenian nation. What rights does anyone, anywhere have to bring shame to President Wilson’s efforts against the crimes of Genocides.Turks seem to believe they are due and owing – for what? Genocides? Obvious, shabby and distressing as this ‘award’ would be – it shames the Turk leaderships mentality. Turkey has a long way to go before becoming a civilized democracy. But then, in Turkey, all the Turks who were the leadership for pursuing the mass slaughters, rapes, kidnappings, and worse of the Armenians – imagine! today are the ‘heroes’ of the Turkish nation. The mentality of the Tursk is still in the Ottoman mode – funny thing, Turk leaders are proud of their Ottoman heritage – and it shows – again, in your face!