Azerbaijan, Baku / Тrend corr I. Alizadeh / The head of Anti-Defamation League (ADL), one of USA's largest and most ancient Jews organizations, Abraham Fohman, removed from office the Regional Director on North-East America, Andrew Tarsi for his statement on League's recognition of Armenian genocide, the chairman of Azerbaijani-Jewish inter-parliamentary friendship group, Azerbaijani MP of Jewish origin, Evda Abramov, said in Baku on 24 August.
"One or two Jews can recognize Armenian genocide. That will be the result of Armenian lobby's impact. However, that does not mean that Jews residing in the United States and the organizations functioning there also recognize the genocide," he said.
Tarsi's discharge caused serious disagreements within the organization. Then ADL placed a statement in its web-site saying that the organization considers the events that happened in the Ottoman Empire in 1915 to be genocide. ADL's president said that he had done that to remove clashes in the organization.
US Congress and Senate's members of Jews origin consider the Armenian genocide fictitious, Abramov said.
According to him, Congressmen and Senators of Jews origin repeatedly stated that the events of 1915 cannot be discussed at the US Congress and Senate. That can damage USA-Turkish relationships.
Recognition of Armenian genocide by a Jewish organization or backing of the law by several Jewish Congressmen or Senators cannot negatively affect Israel's relationships with Turkey or Azerbaijan.
Expenditures for elections into the US Congress or Senate of well-known Jewish candidates are undertaken by Armenian lobby. Instead, the Congressmen and Senators have to meet the interest of the Armenian lobby, the MP said.
"Except Holocaust, Jews do not recognize any event as genocide. Genocide ha to be proved and recognized by the entire world. Fictitious Armenian genocide was given a political colour, which is inadmissible in this case," he said.
Azerbaijani Jews and Jewish organizations functioning in Azerbaijan condemn and protest against the activities of the persons recognizing the fictitious Armenian genocide, he added.
ADL was established in 1911.