It is pretty conclusively established that Lt. General Michael Flynn, who’s slated to become National Security Advisor to President Elect Donald Trump, is a lobbyist for Turkey. That brings up an important question: does he deny Turkey’s World War I genocide against 1.5 million Armenians? See:
http://dailycaller.com/2016/11/11/trumps-top-military-adviser-is-lobbying-for-obscure-company-with-ties-to-turkish-government/
Nobody, but nobody gets hired by the Turkish government who doesn’t tow their line that there was no genocide, that Armenians revolted and that anybody killed was just unfortunate collateral damage. It’s nonsense. First the Turks drafted 500,000 Armenian men of draft service age, had them build fortifications and then killed them, leaving the remaining women, children and old men virtually defenseless.
My own party, the Peace & Freedom Party, does not have clean hands on this issue either, having recently re-elected (recycled) Kevin Akin, another anti-Armenian flack whose son is the chief foreign policy wonk for Senator Ron Wyden. Wyden, who was once described by Counter Punch as to the right of Ariel Sharon, frequently tows the pro-Turkish line of the Israeli government. See my critique of Akin’s bigotry against Armenians at http://janbtucker.com/blog/2010/05/04/konversations-with-kevin-akin-2/
About Jan Tucker
The Detectives Diary is an innovative tool combining Private Investigation and Journalism. In 1984, Steve Harvey's Los Angeles Times "Around the Southland" Column entitled Jan Tucker's program of providing low-cost "Opposition Research" services to indigent and working class candidates for public office, "Take Cover: Hired Mudslinger Rides into Town." A 1996 Los Angeles Times article by Henry Chu carried a sub-headline identifying Tucker as a "P.R. Guru." In November 2012, Tucker became Criminal Justice Columnist for Counter Punch Magazine and a commentator for Black Talk Radio.
As a private investigator since 1979 and a former First Vice President of Newspaper Guild Local 69, Tucker takes these skills to a new level in the pages of the Detectives Diary with insightful and unique exposures and analysis of history and current events.
State Director--California League of Latinos And Chicanos, Former seven term Chairman of the Board of the California Association of Licensed Investigators, Co-President San Fernando Valley/Northeast Los Angeles Chapter-National Organization for Women, former National Commissioner for Civil Rights-League of United Latin American Citizens, former Second Vice President-Inglewood-South Bay Branch-National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, former founding Vice President-Armenian American Action Committee, former First Vice President, Newspaper Guild Local 69 (AFL-CIO, CLC, CWA), Board member, Alameda Corridor Jobs Coalition, Community Advisory Board member--USC-Keck School of Medicine Alzheimer's Disease Research Project
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