Mr. Biden,
Every year today we remember those who died in the Armenian genocide
during the Ottoman period and we renew our commitment to prevent such a persecution from happening again.
You spoke of Istanbul as "Constantinople", you said, "Starting with the arrest of Armenian intellectuals and community leaders in Constantinople on April 24, 1915, 1.5 million Armenians were deported, massacred or waged to death in an extermination operation." did not happen.

1- "We have learned from the press that you will make a statement on April 24, which symbolizes the so-called Armenian Genocide Lie.

2- After three separate decisions of the European Court of Human Rights (ECHR), which is an international court, a statesman can no longer talk about the "Armenian Genocide" in any way.

3- Your election as the President of the USA does not give you the power to make an unlawful claim.
4- You cannot put yourself in the shoes of the courts or usurp the decision of the competent court.

5- I suggest you to have your experts examined the decision of the 2nd Chamber of the ECtHR on 17 December 2013 and the decision of the ECHR Grand Chamber dated 15 October 2015 in the trial called "Perinçek-Switzerland Case".I also bring to your attention the decision of the ECtHR dated 28 November 2017 in the case between Ali Mercan, Ethem Kayalı, Hasan Kemahlı and the Swiss State.It is stated in the ECHR decisions that presidents, parliaments and governments are not authorized to judge genocide.

6- You do not have the authority to judge genocide.

7- Genocide is a concept of law, a definition of a crime. By entering the definition of genocide, the ECtHR has actually addressed the legal characterization of the 1915 events. In other words, it entered the question of whether there is an Armenian genocide or not. The concept of genocide is a legal concept, and it is different from the concepts such as slaughter, massacre and mutual slaughter in our daily language.

8- The competent court decides the existence of the crime of genocide. Let the presidents, their parliaments, and their governments, not even any court be competent, let the judgment of genocide be ruled out. According to the United Nations 1948 Genocide Convention, only the court of the country where the crime was committed or the competent International Criminal Court can declare that the crime of genocide has been committed. Mr. Joe Biden cannot usurp the court's authority.

9- Governments or institutions or nations, in other words legal persons and communities, do not commit the crime of genocide. Individuals commit the crime of genocide, just like murder, pickpocketing or theft. Participation in crime is also an individual action. Therefore, Turkey or the Ottoman Empire State or government or legal persons and institutions such as the army of "committing genocide" as they claim, incompatible with the basic principles of criminal law.

10- There is no authorized court decision stating that genocide was committed in the 1915 events. Criminal Law deals with the criminal acts of individuals. There is no authorized court decision to date that the acts committed in 1915 constitute the crime of genocide. Therefore, the "Armenian genocide" allegations are completely unlawful.

11- Any parliament, president, government, municipality, university, academic institution, association, meeting etc. is not authorized to judge “genocide was committed” in the events of 1915. Such decisions are contrary to international law. All of them are politically motivated decisions.

12- The events of 1915 are different from the Jewish genocide known as the "Holocaust", they cannot be classified in the same classification. As is known, the Jewish Genocide was ruled by an authorized court decision. However, there is no judicial decision on the 1915 events.

13- It cannot be concluded that the crime of genocide was committed in relation to the actions before 1948. Because the crime of genocide was accepted in 1948 with the United Nations Convention. Before 1948, there was no crime definition such as “genocide”. The principle of no crime without law is the basis of modern Criminal Law. No one can be convicted of genocide for their pre-1948 actions.

14- The freedom to discuss the 1915 events as a matter of history is guaranteed. However, there is no freedom to usurp the jurisdiction of the courts. Historians and everyone have the freedom to express any opinion on the events of 1915. However, he does not have the power to place himself in the position of competent court and to make a judgment on whether the 1915 events are genocide or not. For this reason, freedom of discussion and expression is about what happened in the events of 1915, how and why. Nobody has the freedom to take the place of the court and judge that "such and such person committed the crime of genocide in 1915." Indeed, the legislative, executive and judicial institutions of many US allies have now accepted that the Armenian Genocide allegation is legally invalid.

15- Decision of the Swiss Federal CourtAfter the decisions of the ECHR, on 25 August 2016, the Swiss Federal Court also lifted the conviction of Doğu Perinçek by the Lausanne Magistrate Criminal Court. In the justification of that decision, it is stated that only the competent Turkish Court and the competent International Criminal Court can decree the genocide.

16- Decision of the French Constitutional Council
The French Constitutional Council annulled the "law on punishment of those who denied the Armenian genocide" adopted by the French Parliament in January 2012 on the grounds that it was against the constitution and freedom of expression. Decision of the French National Assembly on December 3, 2015:
“The French Parliament was sent back to the sub-commission at the session held on December 3, 2015, on the grounds that the bill prepared on the instructions of President Hollande has no legal basis. Speaking at the meetings, State Minister Jean-Marie Le Guen recalled the decisions taken by the ECHR in the Perinçek-Switzerland Case. '

17- Decision of the Danish Parliament
The decision of the Danish Parliament rejecting the motion regarding the Armenian genocide in the 1915 events of January 26, 2016 will also enlighten the President of the USA. The Danish Parliament and Government found that the Government and the Parliament were not competent in the negotiations.
In Legal Doctrine and in European Universities:
Decisions of the ECHR in the Perinçek-Switzerland Case Are Based On

18- The ECHR's "Perinçek-Switzerland Case" decisions are examined as model decisions in courses on International Relations, Human Rights and European Law at European universities. Numerous studies have been published on this subject in the journals of law faculties. [1]

19- In Europe, the imperialists were taught the lies of the Armenian genocide in the past, now it is taught that political institutions do not have the authority to rule the Armenian genocide.

20- We know that you are bringing up the lie of the illegal Armenian Genocide for imperialist political purposes. Armenian genocide allegations species, fighting against Turkey in the First World War was used as a propaganda tool by the imperialist countries.

Recently, we see that the USA is the chief heir of this imperialist propaganda.
You can split the atom, but you can not break apart Turkey. I suggest you stop clinging to the unlawful nonsense that is now rusty.

“Apart from the great exaggeration of the hostile accusers, the issue of the deportation of Armenians actually refers to this: When the Russian Army started its great offensive against us in 1915, the Dashnak Committee, which was in the service of the Tsarist at that time, revolted the Armenian people who were behind our military units.

We always saw ourselves caught between two fires, as we were forced to retreat in the face of the enemy's superiority in numbers and materials. Our supply and wounded convoys were brutally massacred, the bridges and roads behind us were destroyed, and terror prevailed in Turkish villages.
The gangs, who added all the Armenians who were able to take up arms to their ranks who carried out these murders, carried out their weapons, ammunition and food supplies in Armenian villages where some great states were able to benefit from the immunities granted by capitulations and to create large stocks for this purpose.

The world wrestler who regards Ireland almost indifferently to the treatment of the British in the peace time and far from the battlefield, cannot justify us for the decision we were obliged to take regarding the deportation of the Armenian people.

Contrary to the slanders made against us, those who were deported are alive and most of them would have returned home if the Allied Powers did not force us to fight again. "

Source: Clarence K. Streit-Unknown Turks, translated by Heath W. Lowry,
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