A MEETING IN FRANKFURT DEDICATED TO THE ARMENIAN GENOCIDE

AZG Armenian Daily
20/04/2007

The Organizers Demand To Declare April 24 As A Day Of Sorrow For The
People Of Turkey

In Frankfurt, on April 24 a meeting will be held dedicated to the
Armenian Genocide. The organizers demand to adopt the Genocide of
1915 and declare April 24 as a day of sorrow for the people of Turkey.

Besides the "Organization against Genocide’ (leader Ali Ertem) that
has held this kind of meetings before, other Turkish organizations
in Germany are also taking part in this action.

Here is the message sent by Ali Ertem to "Azg": "We, Turkish people
of Europe, are sorry that up today the 92 years old (from 1915 up to
1923), Genocides of Christians in Turkey, are denied. The Christians
were 1/3 of the population of the Ottoman Empire before 1915. And
the declarations of the national figures of Turkey, that 99,9%
of the population are Muslims, is just a kind of confession of the
Genocides. They committed Genocide to make a homogeneous society in
Turkey, but they failed. The murder of Hrant Dink shows us again that
nothing has changed in the minds of the Turkish leaders. Hrant Dink
was murdered because of being Armenian.

For the first time in the history people of Turkey came together with
a slogan "We are all Armenian" and it was a serious stroke against
the chauvinism and denial.

The murder of Hrant Dink made the intellectuals of Turkey understand
the sorrow, anguish and horror of the victims of Genocide, that without
adopting their own history they cannot have a democratic society and
get rid of the fascism of Ittihat.

The organizers of the Genocide Talaat, Enver and Nazim not only
killed millions of people but also sawed the seeds of hatred, fear
and hostility. And because of that the history of Turkey becomes
a history of violence against the ethnic and religious minorities:
i.e. against Kurds nowadays, Jews in Trakia in 1934, the slaughter
by Kyazm Ozalp in 1943, the massacres on September 5,6, in 1955,
in Istanbul, against the religious tribes called Alavins in 1990s in
Marash, Chorum and Svaz.

The above-mentioned shows us that today’s Turkey survives only on the
crime against humanity. In other words the Genocide continues up today.

On Tuesday, April 24, " Union against Genocide", "Turkish workers"
Federation in Germany", "The Federation of democratic people in
Germany", "The union of the workers is the brotherhood of people"
organizations and the "Union of struggle" newspaper will organize
a duty to show their struggle against the denial of the Genocide,
sorrow to the victims of Genocide and Hrant Dink, and also to declare
April 24 as a day of sorrow for the people of Turkey.