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US Congresswoman: â€œ1915 events are not genocide and American scientists confirm thatâ€

30 April 2009 15:15 (UTC +04:00)

Washington â€“ APA. Member of US House of Representative from Ohio Jean Schmidt will make an official complaint against the Armenian, who libeled her for non-recognition of false â€œArmenian genocideâ€. Schmidt decided to complain to the Ohio election committee against her former rival in November 4 2008 elections David Grigorian, APA reports quoting Milliyyet newspaper. Grigorian accused Schmidt in receiving of blood money from Turks to deny the â€œgenocideâ€. Schmidt said it was not correct to call the 1915 events as genocide. â€œI never voted for the â€œArmenian genocideâ€ resolutions at the Congress. I always consider that it is not a problem of the Congress. I support the idea of establishing the independent international commission of the experts to resolve this issue once for allâ€.

Schmidt reminded that US influential scientists also confirmed that it wouldnâ€™t be correct to use â€œgenocideâ€ word for the tragic events of 1915. Famous historian Bernard Lewis and Norman Itzkowitz of Princeton University, Stanford Shaw of the University of California, Justin McCarthy from Louisville University, Guenter Lewy and Brian Williams from the University of Massachusetts, David Fromkin, Boston University, Avigdor Levy, Brandeis University, Michael Gunter of Tennessee Tech University, Pierre Oberling, Hunter College, Roderick Davidson, George Washington University, Michael Radu, Foreign Policy Research Institute and military historian Edward J. Erickson are among them.

Schmidt said supporters of her election campaign had no relations with the government of Turkey and she had the documents confirming that. She said Grigorian violated election laws deliberately and she demanded the election committee to take penal sanctions against him.