WASHINGTON (A.W.)—The White House announced it would display the Ghazir rug, also known as the Armenian Orphan Rug, as part of an exhibit titled, “Thank You to the United States: Three Gifts to Presidents in Gratitude for American Generosity Abroad,” that will be held at the White House Visitor Center from Nov. 18-23.
The rug will be showcased along with two other objects that were presented to U.S. presidents as a show of gratitude: the Sevres vase from France that was sent to President Herbert Hoover in 1930 for feeding children in post-World War I France, and Flowering Branches in Lucite that were presented to President Barack Obama for U.S. aid to Japan after the tsunami in 2010.
Although a step in the right direction, critics say what is more important is a change in U.S. policy towards the recognition of the Armenian Genocide—and an end to the official use of euphemisms in describing what the majority of Genocide scholars and experts consider genocide.
In his response to the statement, ANCA’s Aram Hamparian said, “If President Obama’s decision to publicly exhibit the Armenian Orphan Rug is to represent a symbol of real progress, the White House Visitor Center Exhibit will clearly and unequivocally reference the still unpunished crime that led to its creation–the Armenian Genocide.”
Below is the White House statement that was issued on Oct. 15:
Statement by NSC Spokesperson Bernadette Meehan on of the Display of the Ghazir Rug in the White House Visitor Center
On November 18-23, the White House Visitor Center will show an exhibit entitled: “Thank you to the United States: Three Gifts to Presidents in Gratitude for American Generosity Abroad.” Among those gifts displayed will be the Ghazir Rug. The rug, also known as the “Armenian Orphan Rug,” was presented to President Coolidge in 1925 in recognition of the humanitarian assistance rendered by the American people to displaced Armenian orphans.
The rug is made to characterize the Garden of Eden, contains 4 million knots and took 18 months to complete. The rug measures 11.5 feet by 19 feet and is in excellent condition. It was removed with President Coolidge’s personal possessions when he left office in 1929 but was returned to the White House as a gift from his family in 1982. The rug has only been displayed twice since then, and is a reminder of the close relationship between the people of Armenia and the United States.
The other two items in the exhibit are a Sèvres vase commissioned by “Young People of France” that is believed to have been sent to President Hoover in 1930 in appreciation for feeding children in post-World War I France, and Flowering Branches in Lucite which were sent to President Obama in recognition of American support of the people of Japan after the devastating earthquake and tsunami in 2010.
The White House Visitor Center is located at 1450 Pennsylvania Avenue, NW. The center is free and open to the public from 7:30 a.m. until 4 p.m. daily.
A little crumb to armenians.
a little crumb to Armenians here, a little crumb there – pretty soon we have a whole stack of delicious Lavash. (that’s an ingenious, traditional Armenian flat bread, nomad, turk.)
your criminal genocidal state, turkey, is slowly breaking apart, nomadoglu turk. don’t worry about our crumbs: worry about where Uyguroglu denialist turks like you will live, once your unnatural state disintegrates.
Enjoy your cake while sitting on NATO’s lap while it lasts. There will come a time when the fattened up Turkey will be next on its sacrificial altar.
nomadoglu turk.
Read the following two interesting articles @TodaysZaman by your fellow turks to see what awaits your genocidal Neo-Nazi denialist state.
[Turkey’s hopeless Kurdish question]
(by GÖKHAN BACIK. October 12, 2014)
[As Turkey is being partitioned]
(by EMRE USLU. October 08, 2014)
I will excerpt some of the more cheerful parts to save you some time:
EMRE USLU
{ Let us first name this process: The Justice and Development Party (AKP) government is unable to maintain security. Martial law was declared, and there is a curfew, but nobody cares. The state is unable to protect even its own buildings. The police outposts are not under control. The Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) has the initiative when it comes to safety and security. The intelligence agency is unaware of what is going on. What the military will do remains uncertain. There are even police chiefs and governors telling police officers they should go fishing in this country because peace has been attained. }
{What is worse is that the process referred to as the settlement process has evolved into a process of partition, because the mistakes committed in this process made the partition of this country inevitable.}
GÖKHAN BACIK:
{These events proved three important points. First of all, it is now very clear that Turkey has lost its capacity to rule a significant part of its territory….}
{Secondly, Ankara has only one option to forestall another uprising by the Kurds. That is Abdullah Öcalan, who has been in prison for more than 10 years. Lacking any other instrument that may work to stop the Kurds, Ankara’s only option is to knock on Öcalan’s prison door to ask him to call on Kurds to stop}
{Thirdly, recent developments have proved that Turkish Kurdistan is in the process of formation.}
Fills one’s indigenous heart with so much warmth and cheer, donnit, nomad turk ?
So have you decided where you are going to move to Uyguroglu ?
I hear Han Chinese have put out the welcome mat in Uyguristan: have you considered going back to the land of your ancestors (…don’t blame me pal: your former FM Davutoglu (now PM) proudly said that when he was visiting there in 2010. You know, “Once an Uyguroglu, Always an Uyguroglu”)
Its been nearly 100 years since you Turks decided to murder and mostly steal from the original Armenians, Greeks and Assyrians.. And you see its still has gone away. Its only a matter of time..
And we Armenians are supposed to be thrilled about this ? Wow..how thrilled i am.
Wake up people and think for just a minute,how would this act help our cause in any way,please tell me how?
Enough stupidity,enough!!!
Yes Avery “Soon”.
99 years and counting.
Ali, I know you love numbers,
1453-1923 end of Ossmani Khalifate
1923-? Fake Turkish Khailfate
Armenia will be for ever!