Cyprus Action Network of America 

UPDATE ON CANA PROGRESS: BANNED IN TURKEY: THE PONTIAN QUESTION IN THE UNITED NATIONS

For Immediate Release: May 28, 2008

Contact: Nikolaos Taneris, New York, Tel. 1-917-699-9935

NEW YORK—On May 05, 2008, the Cyprus Action Network of America (CANA) successfully filed with the Department of State as an incorporated Political Organization, now filed as section 527 with the US tax authorities, meaning   that CANA can organize and operate primarily to directly earn and directly accept contributions to influence the selection of any individual to any public office, effectively CANA can directly be involved in sponsoring candidates for our cause. Please make sure to visit the new additions to our website, we have modified the “Who are we” page and we also added a DONATE button. Below, we provide, a letter from Nikolaos Taneris, followed by a new sale offer for the fantastic book “The Pontian Question In The United Nations”

(1)  Greetings From CANA—A Letter From Nikolaos Taneris

Dear Friends:

The Cyprus Action Network of America (CANA) has been having a remarkable year of success, since our beginnings last July 20^th, our demonstrations and activism have been published in Ellenorama of Greece, in local community newspapers in English, and in the Diaspora press.

Our struggle to raise awareness has inspired and spearheaded a new dawn of activism for all the enslaved Hellenic people suffering under Turkish oppression, --Thracians, Pontians , Ionians, Anatolians, Constantinopolitans, and Cypriots.

Soon, we will begin promoting participation and activism surrounding our 2^nd Annual July 20^th Protest of the Turkish Embassy in Washington DC, coinciding with lectures and community activism on Turkey’s crimes.

I will personally thank everyone who can generously sustain our work. So please help us in supporting our cause for full recognition and justice for Turkey’s crimes.

NIKOLAOS TANERIS

Press Officer

Cyprus Action Network of America

(2) A Classic book for sale: The Pontian Question In The United Nations.

By Michalis Charalambidis (International League For The Rights and Liberations Of Peoples)

2004

Softcover, 183 pages

ISBN: n/a

 This rare and valuable book provides a detailed analysis of Turkey’s racist behavior and thinking toward Pontians. Translated from Hellenic by Constantinos Gatsios.

Written by Michalis Charalambidis, member of the executive Committee of the International League for the Rights and Liberations of People, a  renowned Hellenic politician and intellectual, Charalambidis has presented the Pontian Genocide and the wider Hellenic Genocide to many international bodies ,recently appearing before the EU, Charalambidis has led the effort to recognize the Pontian Genocide in the UN, and has also participated in conferences with Armenian Genocide scholars and presenters Tesa Hoffman and B. Whitaker , at the UN Commission in Geneva. Working with human rights leaders such as Sora Solars of “The Mothers of May Square” in Argentina, Charalambidis provides a wealth of essays, letters, and pictures documenting the Pontian struggle for Genocide recognition, reporting on human rights abuses against Pontians in Turkey today, and encapsulating the Thracian and Cypriot struggle as well.

From The Prologue:  “This book includes my essays in international and national meetings, where-through the description of the Pontian drama and that of other peoples of the area-the structures, the mechanism of death, violence, and genocide that Kemalism represents , are being revealed and condemned. The racist, theoretical, ideological and state structure, the egg of the snake, which gradually transforms an area rich in peoples, cultures, and religions into an endless silence. Into a cemetery of historic peoples ,cultures and religions….This takes place in an area –Asia Minor, Ionia, Pontos, Mesopotamia—which was the center for many ecumenical religions and for a civilization not just European but international. The roots and the first flowers of this civilization are buried in the sacred land of this historic area along with the peoples, the men, the women and children who died but were left without graves. In the mountains, the rivers, the valleys, the Tigris, the Euphrates, Mt. Ararat, the Pontian Alps, the Euxinian Sea. For over a decade they were covered with the blood of innocent people. A great crime against humanity was committed there: the genocide of the Pontians (Pontioktonia)”

Contents:  Prologue; A People In Continued Exodus; Civil And Political Rights; The Questions Of Freedom Of Expression; Response Of The International League To The Turkish Reactions; The Pontians And The Repression Of Their Freedom of Expression; The Significance Of May 19 As A Day In Memory Of The Pontian Genocide; The Woman In The Pontian Genocide; The Pontian Genocide 1916-1923; The Idea of Romania; From The Peoples Of Silence To The Common Voice Of Peoples; Aspects Of The Pontian Question; George Pattakis Proclamation; The Kemalist Gordian Knot And The Peoples; The Turkish Problem; Racist Discrimination Against The Pontians; Universal Declaration Of The Rights Of Peoples; Chronicle.

This fascinating book by Michalis Charalambidis, described by wikipedia as “the ringleader” of the struggle for Pontian Genocide or Hellenic Genocide recognition, is BANNED IN TURKEY.

Order direct from the The Cyprus Action Network of America:

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