1. What is defamation?
Defamation is a statement that damages your reputation. Defamation has two forms: written (libel) or spoken (slander).
2. What is racial defamation?
Racial defamation is statements against you aiming to damage your reputation solely because of your race or ethnic background.
3. Do people of Turkish descent face any racial defamation in the United States of America?
Yes — Turkish-Americans are routinely and falsely accused of being a genocidal race by hostile diaspora groups and the politicians who seek their votes.
4. What type of racial defamations Turkish-Americans face with in their daily life?
• Being a member of Mongoloid, destructive, rapist and genocidal race (for being a Turk);
• Being a “genocide denier” if a Turkish-American refuses to accept the above statement.
5. In what environments Turkish-Americans face with racial defamation?
Everywhere — social media, workplaces, schools, restaurants, parks, at social gatherings and public events.
6. What is the root cause and who supports these racial defamations against Turkish-Americans?
Primarily career politicians who take campaign donations and endorsements from Armenian, Greek, and other diaspora groups hostile to Turks, and in return promote anti-Turkish propaganda.
Politicians accept donation money and votes from anti-Turkish diaspora organizations, then support, repeat and legitimize those organizations’ false, racist narratives in exchange.
7. What are the historical events of 1915 which Armenians and U.S. politicians keep talking about?
During WWI, certain Armenian political factions openly collaborated with the enemy Russian army. Ottoman government temporarily relocated Eastern Armenian populations from active war zones to safe zones within the bordes of the empire.
These are the events that politicians are trying to illegaly label as genocide.
No international court has ever ruled on these wartime relocations as genocide.
8. What do the racist defamers plan to gain from these attacks?
Primarily politicians want more election campaign donations and votes. On the other hand the racial hate fueled diaspora organizations and groups plan to gain more control power over their local politicians, create pressure on Turkish descent people and today’s modern Turkiye indirectly.
8. Are Senators politicians?
Yes — U.S. Senators are elected politicians, and like all politicians, they are motivated by the donation money and votes.
10. Is the President a politician?
Yes, the President is essentially a politician.
11. Is genocide a legal term like murder or theft?
Yes — genocide is a precise legal crime that can only be declared by a competent international court, not by any politician, parliament, or president.
12. What is the definition of genocide?
A crime to be categorized as genocide, there must be a proven intent on the part of perpetrators to physically destroy a national, ethnical, racial or religious group. Cultural destruction does not suffice, nor does an intention to simply disperse a group.
Under the 1948 UN Genocide Convention, genocide means any of the following acts committed with intent to destroy, in whole or in part, a national, ethnical, racial or religious group, as such:
• Killing members of the group;
• Causing serious bodily or mental harm to members of the group;
• Deliberately inflicting on the group conditions of life calculated to bring about its physical destruction in whole or in part;
• Imposing measures intended to prevent births within the group;
• Forcibly transferring children of the group to another group.
13. Which authorities can decide whether actions constitute genocide?
Only three bodies have jurisdiction: the International Court of Justice (ICJ), the International Criminal Court (ICC), and specially appointed International Military Tribunals — no one else.
19. Can political parties, governors, civil organizations, countries’ parliaments or senates declare an event as genocide?
No — they have zero legal authority to make that determination;
The power to adjudicate genocide matters is reserved to ICJ, (for cases between countries), the ICC (for individual criminal responsibility), and specially constituted international tribunals — exclusively.
14. Which events can not be announced as genocide without and official trial?
Except Bosnia, Rwanda, Yugoslavia and the Nuremberg trials all events are legally unproven and cannot be declared genocide without a competent court judgement.
No party can be presumed or declared guilty of genocide unless the ICJ, ICC or special tribunals release a verdict about it. These courts try all parties under the presumption of innocence and with the trappings of due process.
15. Are we protected from racial defamation by the laws in the United States?
Yes — the U.S. Constitution, the Civil Rights Act of 1964, and federal hate crime and anti-discrimination laws all protect Turkish-Americans from racial defamation, harassment, and discrimination.
16. What are our constitutional rights as Turkish-Americans?
You have the right to free speech, equal protection under the law, due process before being branded a criminal, freedom from racial discrimination at work and school, and the right to sue anyone who defames, threatens, or harasses you because of your Turkish heritage.
If you think you have been treated unfairly, please contact tada right away at (406) 233-9377 or email support@tadalliance.org or via the website form https://tadalliance.org/report-a-defamation-activity. TADA is ready to help.
