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4worldlovers: PACSO serves the Iranian community in Ottawa through various programs and events. We rely on the support and engagement of Volunteers, Sponsors and Members to better serve and effectively meet the emerging needs of our community.

It takes all of us to build and keep our community. A community with common interests in art and culture. Iranian arts and cultural society is run by volunteers like you.

Your membership enables us to produce cultural and artistic programs and organize social events.

The annual membership fee is $20, which entitles you to many benefits including but not limited to:

4worldlovers: Welcome to the Council of Turkish Canadians’ (CTC) web site. CTC is a non-profit organization whose purpose is to carry out advocacy and promotion in the interest and on behalf of Canadians of Turkish origin. About us…

There was no Pontus genocide. Claims by ethnic parliamentarians in Ottawa are malicious distortions of Turkish modern history. Recently, the Senate debated and rejected a private Members Motion on this subject. Now, apparently, a new effort is being launched to mislead public opinion and Canadians unaware of historical facts.

The Council of Turkish Canadians (CTC) deplores these ill-conceived, cheap political schemes intended to malign Turks, including Turkish Canadians and damage Canada-Turkey relations.

In summary, the relevant history is as follows. (CTC is ready to furnish details to interested members of the news media or parliamentarians).

1) in September 1919, Greece invaded Anatolia to Hellenize the region in pursuit of Greater Greece.

2) The invading army was totally defeated by the Turkish National Army led by the future Ataturk, the founder of Modern Turkish Republic. In fact, today, 19 May, is the 99th Anniversary of the Turkish victory.

3) During the 4-year Greek invasion of the Turkish homeland, Greeks carried out war crimes (mass killings, burning towns and cities), documented by Allies themselves in various Commissions, as well as by famed historian Arnold Toynbee, an eyewitness reporter of the Manchester Guardian.

4) Pontian Greeks, in the Black Sea region, were forced by Greek authorities and especially the Greek Orthodox Church, to join the invaders.

5) After the Greek defeat, there was a Population Exchange proposed by the Greek leader Venizelos, and millions of Persons, including Pontians, were relocated as part of the Peace Treaty at Lausanne.

7) Canada, as member of the British Empire is a signatory to the Treaty of Lausanne 1922.

CTC and TCCA Remember All Victims of the Ottoman-Armenian War Tragedy, 1915

CTC and TCCA remember in sadness, once again, the victims of the Ottoman-Armenian conflict during the First World War. As Canadians we stand, always, for historical truth and ultimately ethnic reconciliation within the cherished Canadian multiculturalism.

As a dreaded manifestation of any war, the Ottoman-Armenian conflict was a tragedy. It erupted when Armenian nationalists, while Ottoman subjects with a “favoured people” status and treated as such for over 300 years, staged a premeditated revolt against the Ottoman State, siding with the invading Russian Empire armies in Eastern Anatolia. This was high treason. Acting in self-defence and for protection of all its citizens/subjects, the Ottoman administration relocated Armenians from the war zone. Tragically, the relocation led to large-scale loss of life. Combatants and civilians, Turks, Kurds, and Armenians, became victims of famine, disease, banditry and general breakdown of law and order when the Empire was nearing dissolution. Massacres and counter-massacres unfolded in a general atmosphere of lawlessness.

More Turks perished than Armenians; these losses were huge. We acknowledge the loss and suffering on both sides. It would be unjust to rank ethnic suffering and loss of one side over the other. Moreover, in no way, does this tragedy fall under the UN Genocide Convention of 1948. This historical fact has been confirmed in two recent and separate judicial decisions at the European Court of Human Rights as well as the French Constitutional Council.

It is our belief that, as Canadians, we need to go beyond ethnic politics and leave History to historians. We stand for honest and open dialogue between Canadians of Turkish and Armenian origin. As well, we call on Canada to be even-handed and encourage Turkey and Armenia to move forward in line with spirit of the Zurich Protocols of 2009 which includes establishment of an independent commission of historians and experts to study events of 1915.

The Council of Turkish Canadians (CTC) condemns Global Affairs decision to cancel permits for export of hi-tech military equipment to Turkey. This is a biased decision and reflects the Canadian Armenians’ disproportionate influence on Canadian foreign policy. No ethnic group should be allowed to determine Canada’s foreign policy.

It is fact that Turkey sided with Azerbaijan in the Nagorno-Karabagh was last Fall. This was in line with international law. Armenians were the aggressor in this long-standing conflict. CTC believe it is unjustified for Canada to reward aggression and to go against international law.

4worldlovers: The CAC promotes responsible preservation of cultural property that gives Canadians a sense of place, of history and artistic expression.

CAC publications include Journal of the Canadian Association for Conservation (JCAC) and Conference Preprints. You will also find guidelines for publishing with CAC.