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

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 20th, 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 2nd
Annual July 20th 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:


Cut and Paste LINK:


http://www.cyprusactionnetwork.org/donate_today_