GENOCIDE EXPULSION

Hurriyet, Turkey
Sept 28 2006

It would appear that official recognition of Armenian genocide
claims is a pre-condition for participation in local elections in
the Netherlands this year.

A total of 3 ethnically Turkish citizens living in the Netherlands
have been removed as candidates from their parties’ pre-election lists
due to their unwillingness to recognize Armenian claims of genocide as
true. With local elections coming up on November 22, a campaign started
by Armenians living in the diaspora has met with success, as the Dutch
Social Democrat Workers’ Party and the Christian Democrat Party both
removed Turkish candidates from their candidate lists following the
candidates’ refusal to acknowledge the so-called Armenian genocide.

The removal of Social Democrat Workers’ Party candidate Erdinc Sacan
occured first this week, but was followed shortly by a decision by
the Christian Democrat Party to remove both Ayhan Tonca and Osman
Elmaci from its candidate lists.