DIASPORA ARMENIANS ARE IN CONTINUOUS CONTACT WITH PKK TERRORIST ORGANIZATION, EGILMEZ

Anatolian Times, Turkey
Nov 16 2006

ERZURUM – "Armenian Diaspora supported and expended large amounts of
financial assistance to terrorist PKK to weaken and fragment Turkey,"
Associate Professor Savas Egilmez, the Chairman of Association on
Fight Against Baseless Allegations of Genocide, said on Thursday.

In an exclusive interview with the A.A correspondent, Egilmez said,
"we have been carrying out intensive efforts in the national and
international platforms to explain that so-called allegations of
Armenian genocide is a lie."

"Despite the affirmative responses, we started to get negative
reactions recently. We have assessed that supporters of the terrorist
organization is the source of the reactions that were sent through
e-mail," he noted.

Egilmez indicated that Armenian-PKK relationship was once again
revealed with the reactions, noting that "upon the reactions in the
world in 1980`s, the Armenian terrorist organizations changed tactics
and cooperated with the PKK terrorist organization."

Egilmez said terrorist PKK organization in 1980 proclaimed April 21-28
the week of "Red Week" and remembered April 24th as the so-called
genocide day of the Armenians.

"Another remarkable example regarding Armenian-PKK relationship is the
meeting in Beirut between January 6 and 9, 1993. Lebanese Armenian
Orthodox Archbishop, Armenian party executives and 150 youngsters
attended the meetings that were held in two separate churches. At
the meeting, the Archbishop underlined that the Armenian society
was growing gradually and strengthened in economic means. He said
so-called genocide was started to be known better in the world thanks
to the propaganda activities," Egilmez said.

"The Archbishop unveiled their real faces by saying, `Armenian state
was established and broadens its territories day by day. The support
to PKK activities in Turkey rises. Thanks to this support, Turkish
economy will drop to zero, the country will be dragged into chaos,
and Turkey will enter fragmentation process. Turkish territories will
be in the hands of Armenia tomorrow`," Egilmez said.

-PKK-ARMENIAN AGREEMENT-

Egilmez said the Armenian diaspora in Lebanon made an agreement with
the terrorist organization in 1987.

"A decision was made in the agreement that Armenians would get
training in PKK. It was also decided that Armenians would pay 5,000
USD to PKK for each person," he said.

Egilmez said, "it was also decided in the agreement that Armenians
would make the intelligence in the activities against security forces
in Turkey. It was even stated in this agreement that the territory
that would be seized after fragmentation of Turkey would be shared
equally. Armenians also pledged to meet 75 percent of the costs of
camps of the terrorist organization."

-U.S. AND OTHERS-

Underlining that the United States and the European countries accepted
PKK as terrorist organization, Egilmez said, "the U.S. and European
countries know about the relations of the Armenians with PKK. Those
who want to accuse Turkey should not forget this fact."