1. What is racial defamation?
Racial defamation is statements against you aiming to damage your reputation solely because of your race or ethnic background.
2. 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.
3. 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.
4. In what environments Turkish-Americans face with racial defamation?
Everywhere — social media, workplaces, schools, restaurants, parks, at social gatherings and public events.
5. 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.
6. What do the racial 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.
7. What are the recent racist attacks against Turkish-Americans?
• Dearth threats to Turkish historian professor Dr. Hakan Yavuz, (November 2020) Utah
• The Beverly Hills Restaurant Hate Crime because the owner was Turkish descent (November 2020) Los Angeles, CA
• Assault on Azerbaijani Turks in front of the Consulate General of Azerbaijan (July, 2020) Los Angeles, CA
• Café Istanbul Fire & Arson because the owner was Turkish descent (August 2021) Washington, DC
• The Manhattan Stabbing. Man stabbed for being Turkish descent (April 2022) New York City, NY
• Man punched in the face for speaking in Turkish in Avra restaurant (October, 2022) Los Angeles, CA
8. 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 borders of the empire.
These are the events that politicians are trying to illegally label as genocide.
No international court has ever ruled on these wartime relocations as genocide.
9. What do everyone need to know about the WWI in a nutshell?
WWI was a hot war between mainly Ottoman, German and Austrian-Hungarian Empires on one side and Great Britian, France, Russia, Italy and their proxy militants (who were Ottoman citizen and minorities which include Armenians, Assyrians and Greeks) on the other side.
As the war ended, Ottoman, Russian and German Empires collapsed, and new successor states were formed to replace them. Multiple new counties were formed under the control of Entente powers. However, proxy militants did not get fully what they were promised by their Entente partners. These Proxies are still being used today as the probe to continue cold war fight against Turkiye, the successor of Ottoman empire.
The Turkish War of Independence was fought and won against the British-backed Greek armies and Armenian proxies, securing Turkey’s borders under the 1923 Treaty of Lausanne.
10. 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.
11. 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.
12. 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.
13. 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. Who has official jurisdiction to try genocide cases?
The ICJ (for cases between countries), the ICC (for individual criminal responsibility), and specially constituted international tribunals — exclusively.
15. Which authority should people contact if they believe an event is a genocide in the history?
They must file a formal case before the ICJ or ICC — and notably, no party has ever filed such a case against Türkiye in over 75 years, which speaks for itself.
16. Which events have been officially tried and received court verdicts as genocide?
1. The Holocaust (Nuremberg Tribunal)
2. Bosnia/Srebrenica (ICJ)
3. Rwanda (ICTR)
4. Yugoslavia (ICTY)
17. 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.
18. In what forms racial defamation against Turkish-Americans can occur?
Racial defamation can come in any form of communication — written posts, spoken words, videos, cartoons, school curricula, legislative resolutions, or any other medium that spreads false claims about Turkish identity and may even lead to physical attacks.
19. Can you give examples of hate speech versus free speech?
Protected: Publishing an article arguing the Armenian allegations have never been proven in court.
Not protected: Posting that a named Turkish-American is “a genocide supporter” with no factual basis, or threatening violence against Turks.
20. 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.
21. Do we have any rights to protect ourselves from the attackers?
Yes — you can sue for defamation in civil court, file civil rights claims in federal court, file Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) or Office for Civil Rights (OCR) complaints, and request criminal hate crime prosecution, all simultaneously if needed.
22. What are our legal rights in the United States against racial defamation?
No one can discriminate you due to your race or point of view on any topic.
Your freedom of speech cannot be censored.
You have the right to speak freely about contested history, to work and study free from racial harassment, to sue defamers for damages, and to be free from government-sponsored racial stigmatization — all enforceable in court.
23. What is freedom of speech?
Freedom of speech is the right to express any opinions without censorship or restraint. Freedom of speech is your First Amendment right to express your views — including disputing genocide allegations — without government censorship.
You need to be careful about your freedom of speech, it has limits. If you defame others with your speech content you may easily get punished by the law.
24. What is hate speech?
Hate speech is expression that attacks or vilifies a person or group based on race, religion, ethnicity, or national origin — and while it is generally protected under the First Amendment, it becomes illegal when it crosses into defamation, threats, or incitement to violence.
25. Is hate speech protected by freedom of speech?
Generally yes — but not when it turns into defamation, falsely attributes specific criminal conduct to a named individual, threatens someone, or creates severe workplace or school harassment based on race.
26. What are the limits of freedom of speech?
The First Amendment does not protect defamation (false facts that damage reputation), threats, incitement to immediate violence, or discriminatory harassment — all of which are legally actionable.
27. Can you give examples of hate speech versus free speech?
Protected: Publishing an article arguing the Armenian allegations have never been proven in court.
Not protected: Posting that a named Turkish-American is “a genocide supporter” with no factual basis, or threatening violence against Turks.
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