Is Turkey’s Consul Unhappy That not All Armenians Were Slaughtered Like Sheep?
Hakan Tekin, the young and inexperienced Turkish consul general in Los Angeles, is trying hard to earn brownie points with his bosses in Ankara by countering any reference to Armenians in the U.S. media. He went overboard last week by sending an offensive letter to the Los Angeles Times. Tekin was displeased with Patt Morrison’s interview with me published by the Times in its op-ed page on April 24. The article was titled, “Harut Sassounian: True to the Past.” In his brief letter, Consul General Tekin made several misjudgments. The first was to criticize the LA Times’ Pulitzer Prize-winning veteran journalist Patt Morrison, alleging that there were “many misleading elements” in her interview, without naming a single one. Judging from the text of the consul general’s letter, it was probably drafted by one of the many American public relations firms hired by the Turkish government at great cost. While the words may have been written by Americans, the thoughts are definitely those of a Tu
