“GENOCIDE” ALLEGATION FROM ASSYRIANS, CHALDEANS
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Turkish Press
Oct 17 2005
Press Review
A group of Assyrians and Chaldeans has dedicated a monument in Paris
to an alleged “genocide” committed against them in the waning days of
the Ottoman Empire. Some 10,000 Assyrian-Chaldeans live in Paris. The
monument is near a similar to the so-called Armenian genocide.
Francois Pupponi, the socialist mayor of Paris’ Sarcelles district,
said in a dedication speech that the monument was meant to show deep
sympathy for the Assyrian-Chaldean people who died 1915. He also
added that as long as Turkey resists the genocide allegations it will
never join the European Union. A Chaldean Iraqi parliamentarian,
Yonadam Kanna, also reportedly attended the dedication ceremony,
saying that the monument is not a symbol of hostility between Turkey
and Iraq but would help raise awareness of the subject.