Bill Text: CA ACR26 | 2021-2022 | Regular Session | Introduced

California Assembly Concurrent Resolution 26 (Prior Session Legislation)

Introduced

Bill Title: Republic of Turkey.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2021-02-09 - From printer. [ACR26 Detail]

Download: California-2021-ACR26-Introduced.html

CALIFORNIA LEGISLATURE— 2021–2022 REGULAR SESSION

Assembly Concurrent Resolution

No. 26

Introduced by Assembly Member Nazarian

February 08, 2021

Relative to the California businesses and the Republic of Turkey.

LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST

ACR 26, as introduced, Nazarian. Republic of Turkey.

This bill would commend California businesses that have considered the Republic of Turkey’s recent acts of aggression against Armenia and have chosen to suspend business dealings with the government of the Republic of Turkey.

Fiscal Committee: NO

WHEREAS, Turkey and Azerbaijan have been working together to attack and eradicate the Armenian people of the Republic of Artsakh, an autonomous territory controlled by Armenians that is embedded between Azerbaijan and Armenia; and

WHEREAS, On numerous occasions, they have demonstrated their aggression against the Armenian people and in several instances over the summer of 2020, they have targeted their aggression against the Armenian community here in California; and

WHEREAS, The Republic of Turkey is responsible for a collective slaughter of more than 3,000,000 people—one-half of them being Armenians—during the 1915 Armenian genocide. To this day, Turkey continues to deny this genocide and now it aids Azerbaijan in an attempt to continue what it started over 100 years ago; and

WHEREAS, Azerbaijan’s military continues to launch against the Republic of Artsakh. Turkey has transferred thousands of extremist Jihadist militants from the battlefields of Syria and Libya into the Caucasus to support the slaughter of Armenians; and

WHEREAS, Azerbaijan continues to destroy the cities and towns of Artsakh with weapons supplied by Turkey, killing scores of innocent civilians. They have targeted schools, churches, and even hospitals that are located nowhere near any military operations; and

WHEREAS, Turkey and Azerbaijan are significantly more populated and have significant more resources than Artsakh does—the level of wealth, supplies, and armaments do not compare. For many years, Azerbaijan’s dictator has said that he will eliminate the Armenians from the region completely, with the full support of Turkey; and

WHEREAS, There is no question that this invasion is nothing less than a continuation of the Armenian Genocide that was started and is still denied by Turkey, a country that is universally recognized as a perpetrator of the first genocide in modern history, the perpetrator of horrific human rights abuses, and a belligerent imperialist that threatens world peace; now, therefore, be it

Resolved by the Assembly of the State of California, the Senate thereof concurring, That the Legislature of the State of California commends California businesses that have considered Turkey’s recent acts of aggression against Armenia and have chosen to suspend business dealings with the government of the Republic of Turkey; and be it further

Resolved, That the Chief Clerk of the Assembly transmit copies of this resolution to the author for appropriate distribution.