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Recent A.H.M.P. Responses to the Media

A Crisis Unresolved
- Changing Course in Our China Policy (Army Times, Marine Times, South Bend Tribune - published April / May 2001)
Vietnam, Cyprus and Wartime Atrocities
- Senator Kerrey's search for atonement - a harsh lesson unheeded (New York Newsday, The Oklahoma Gazette, The Colorado Springs Independent, The Western Queens Gazette - published May 2001)
Media Alert
- AHMP Calls For Andy Rooney's Dismissal For Racist Remarks Against Greeks and Immigrants (posted June 2001)
The Problem with Balkan Revisionism
- Washington Post and Daily Telegraph advance revisionist views regarding ancient Macedonia and Albanian irredentism (posted April 2001)
Fezzy Thinking
- Acknowledging bias should not be used as cover for genocide denial (New York Press, published on Internet edition February 5, 2001)
Action Alert
- Protest Greek Government's Denial of Genocide of Asia Minor's Christian communities (March 2001)
Greek-American D.C. think-thank backs denial of Armenian Genocide
- The Western Policy Center's Senior Policy Advisor denies Armenian Genocide(February 2001)
Tough Love for Turkey
- Editorial published in numerous periodicals (November 2000)
Torturing Cypriot History
- Article in Media Bypass (published November 2000)
Greece and terrorism
- Letter to The Philadelphia Inquirer (published October 5, 2000)
U.S. Policy Toward Cyprus Needs to Be Changed
- Letter to Insight Magazine (published October 2-9, 2000)
The forgotten holocaust: recognition of Armenian Genocide requires recognition of concurrent Pontian and Assyrian genocides
- Letter to The Toronto Star, September 8, 2000
A glimpse into the machinery of genocide denial
- Media Alert: Microsoft pressured by Turkish government to deny Armenian Genocide (posted, August 21, 2000)
Greece, the U.S., and terrorism
- Phantom Terror (published in Media Bypass, August 2000, and other news sources)
- Exchange of critical letters between US Ambassador to Greece Nick Burns and AHMP's Executive Director regarding "Phantom Terror"
- Coverage by The Washington Times of this exchange of letters (published, June 27, 2000)
Greece hardly a 'terrorist state'
- Commentary to USA Today (published, June 15, 2000)
The Drowning of Turkey's Greek Past
- Letter to Celator (published, August, 2000)
- Letter to The New York Times, June 7, 2000
Will the real fascists please stand up
- Austria's Freedom Party and the MHP (published in Media Bypass, April 2000, and other news sources)
Wagging The Dog: in Kosovo, the media failed us too
- Letter to Newsday, May 25, 2000
A Quintessential Primer For The Misograecist
- Stereotyping Greeks as "Ethnic Hysterics" (posted May 25, 2000)
Thank you for remembering the Armenian Genocide
- Letter to The Guardian's Martin Woollacott, May 23, 2000
Turkey fears opening floodgates to reperations
- Letter to The New York Times, May 15, 2000
Democratizing our media
- A practical guide on how the private citizen can make her voice heard by our media establishment
Omission by The New York Times of Greek Independence Day Parade coverage
- Letter to The New York Times, April 14, 2000
Greeks Haven't Lost Their Marbles Yet
- Letter to The Economist, April 4, 2000
Action Alert
- Violence threatens Armenian Genocide Monument in Netherlands (posted April 25, 2000)
MEDIA ALERT
- McLaughlin Group host chooses Ataturk as "person of the millennium", misinforms that Turkey is a "western parliamentary democracy" (posted January 8, 2000)
"'Greece' is the word"
- Letter to Billboard, December 11, 1999 (published)
A nuclear Turkey is surest way to Balkan arms race
- Letter to The Boston Globe, December 9, 1999
The Chicago Tribune: anatomy of a successful protest
- How collective action can make our voices be heard (published)(posted December 16, 1999)
  -- Click here to view the original Chicago Tribune protest materials (posted December 1, 1999)
Greek protests an exercise in democracy
- The Fresno Bee, New York Newsday, The Dallas Morning News, The Washington Times, and The Detroit News (published, November 21 - December 30, 1999)
- The Daily Republican, November 18, 1999 (published)
Clinton ought to stop indulging Turkey
- Opinion-editorial, The Star-Ledger, November 23, 1999 (published)
Iran, Iraq, Pakistani foreign policy failures should inform our Turkey policy
- Letter to The Knoxville News-Sentinel, November 14, 1999 (published)
Washington Post, Boston Globe, AP declare open season on Greeks
- Washington Post, Boston Globe, AP declare open season on Greeks, November 5-9, 1999
Washington Post, Newsweek disseminate false information on behalf of Turkish government
- Washington Post, Newsweek disseminate false information on behalf of Turkish government, October 26, 1999
Arming repressive regimes damages U.S. foreign policy
- The Daily Republican, October 22, 1999 (published)
History and sources of Cyprus impasse misrepresented by The Financial Times
- Letter to The Financial Times, October 19, 1999
German cemetery attack parallels Turkish attack against Orthodox Christians
- Letter to The New York Times, October 7, 1999
Turkey secular but not democratic
- Letter to The Washington Post, September 30, 1999
Ancient Greek civilization was preserved by Byzantines
- Letter to National Geographic Magazine, September 26, 1999
Turkish nuclear power plant a very bad idea
- Letter to World Press Review, November 1999 (published)
- Letter to the South China Morning Post, September 17, 1999 (published)
- Letter to The Miami Herald, September 17, 1999 (published)
- Letter to The Boston Globe, September 5, 1999 (published)
Turkey's devastating earthquake a nuclear wake up call
- Letter to USA Today, September 2, 1999 (published)
Questioning Armenian Genocide places integrity of reports from Turkey in question
- Letter to The Associated Press, August 24, 1999
"Israel's intriguing Turkish ties"
- Letter to US News & World Report, July 30, 1999
Greece's Terrorism
- Letter to The Boston Globe, July 9, 1999
The Wall Street Journal defends the indefensible
- Letter to The Wall Street Journal, July 2, 1999
Greece's foreign policy towards the Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia misunderstood
- Letter to The Irish Times, May 17, 1999
Christian Orthodoxy not at "root of Balkan evil"
- Letter to The Toronto Sun, April 24, 1999
U.S. leadership must be earned and not imposed
- The New York Times Magazine, March 29, 1999
NOTE: Responses dated prior to the above entry have not been fully updated on this page -- posting is still in progress.
The NY Times no place for bigotry and ethnic stereotyping
- Letter to The New York Times, April 26, 1998
Ethnic bias finds a new home
- Letter to The Village Voice, April 26, 1998
Greeks and Kurds, a brotherhood of sorrows
- Letter to Time, April 26, 1998
Greece's Kurdish sympathies a testimonial to humanity and common decency
- Letter to Time, April 26, 1998
Cypriot Greeks victims of ethnic cleanisng, not "population exchange"
- Letter to The New York Times, April 16, 1998
Turkey, a major lobbyist for genocide denial
- Letter to The Chicago Tribune, April 15, 1998
Why should Cyprus negotiate with an illegal occupation regime? (published)
- Letter to The Wall Street Journal, April 4, 1998 & Version Published, April 10, 1998
Forgotten Voices: The Hereros, the Pontians and the Armenians
- Letter to The Philadelphia Inquirer, April 4, 1998
Cyprus, Europe's last great cultural holocaust
- Letter to The New York Times, April 4, 1998
"Cyprus Mess" engineered by short-sighted and divisive policies
- Letter to The Washington Post, April 3, 1998
Reverie of Turkey serving as secular Islamic model for Arabs holds no water
- Letter to The New York Times, March 30, 1998
Greek and Turkish Cypriot coexistence prevented by Turkish occupation forces, not by each other
- Letter to The Washington Times: March 30, 1998
West's continued acquiesence to Turkish aggression at root of Cyprus impasse (published)
- Letter to The Washington Times: March 30, 1998 & Version Published, April 1, 1998
Associating Orthodoxy with Serb atrocities misinformed
- Letter to The Economist: March 25, 1998
Turkey's violations of women's rights ignored
- Letters to The Washington Post and National Public Radio: March 1, 1998
Honest re-evaluation long overdue for Ankara-Washington alliance
- Letter to The New York Times: February 27, 1998 - two versions
Chanukah not celebration of "darkness of Greek culture" but of survival and tolerance
- Letter to The New York Post: January 31, 1998
Expansionist aims, not environmental concerns, behind Bosporous claims
- Letter to The New York Times: January 16, 1998
Greece not "colonized" by Ottoman Turks but ravaged and subjugated
- Letter to The New York Times: December 31, 1997
Citing Greece as "democidal" nation falsely accuses victimized group
- Letter to The New York Times: December 16, 1997
Failure to cover Patriarchate bombing discriminatory
- Protest Letter to The New York Times: December 14, 1997
Genocide denial a central foreign policy objective of Turkey
- Letter to The World Press Review: December 6, 1997
Supporting a major drug-trafficking nation: what message are we sending?
- Letter to The New York Times: November 15, 1997
West’s acceptance of Turkish expansionism driving Cyprus/Aegean conflict
- Letter to The Economist: November 7, 1997
Turkey denies truth of Armenian and Pontian Greek genocides
- Letter to The New Jersey Star Ledger (short & long versions): May 15, 1997
Ignoring democratic values will work against US interests
- Letter to The Economist: April 25, 1997
Oppression of Greek minority in Albania relevant to region’s geopolitics
- Letter to The Economist: April 21, 1997
Ottomans anything but "tolerant" and "respectful" of Orthodoxy
- Letter to The New York Times: April 14, 1997
Santa not a "Turkish saint"
- Letter to The Frugal Gourmet: March 15, 1997
Re: "Turkey’s EU application unfairly blocked by Greece’s bitter hostility"
- Letter to The New York Times: March 12, 1997
Kurdish issue not the only one keeping Turkey out of EU
- Letter to The New York Times: February 26, 1997
What About Cyprus? (published)
- Letter to The New York Times Magazine: February 15, 1997 & version published on March 16, 1997
St. Nicholas not "returning to roots" in present-day Turkey
- Letter to The New York Times: January 18, 1997
Greek culture and civilization not "dead"
- Letter to The Economist, January 17, 1997
Turkey’s efforts at historical revisionism must be addressed
- Letter to The Economist, January 14, 1997
Book review overlooks fate of Greeks and Armenians in Turkey
- Letter to The New York Times: January 7, 1997
Visitors to Turkey are making a personal moral choice
- Letter ot The New York Times: December 15, 1996
Supporting Turkish Gov’t will guarantee fundamentalist triumph
- Letter to The Economist: December 11, 1996
Exclusion of Orthodox perspective in Christian history
- Letter to The Economist, November 27, 1996
Outrage against Serbia hollow given our active support of Turkey
- Letter to The New York Times, November 2, 1996
Chios Massacre more than just a "village massacre"
- Letter to Johnson County Community College, October 25, 1996
Greece a "state sponsor of international terrorism"?
- Letter to The Washington Times, September 19, 1996
Turkish killings of demonstrators does not justify Cyprus’ partition
- Letter to The Washington Post, September 10, 1996
Omitting Turkey’s role in article chronicling persecution of Kurds
- Letter to The New York Times, September 5, 1996
Turkey’s economic ties with Iran may bring both into Western fold
- Letter to The Wall Street Journal, September 5, 1996
Culpability for murders of Cyprus protesters clearly at Turkey’s door
- The Wall Street Journal, September 1, 1996

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