TURKISH ORGANIZATIONS OF GERMANY TO HONOR VICTIMS OF ARMENIAN GENOCIDE

PanARMENIAN.Net
20.04.2007 16:49 GMT+04:00

/PanARMENIAN.Net/ On the initiative of "Union against Genocide"
an event will be organized in Frankfurt April 24, dedicated to the
Armenian Genocide.

Organizers demand to proclaim April 24 as a universal mourning day
for all nations of Turkey.

According to Turkish journalist Ali Ertem, head of the organization
established by Turks residing in Germany, other organizations
participate in the event too.

Particularly they are – Federation of Turkish workers of Germany,
Federation of Democratic Nations of Germany, Federation of Worker
Immigrants of Germany, "Union of Workers – Brotherhood of Nations"
organization and "Union for Struggle" newspaper.

The statement of "Union against Genocide" reads as follows, "Immigrants
from Turkey feel great sorrow concerning the fact, that today
genocides, which took place 92 years ago and were committed between
1915-23 towards Christian nations of the Ottoman Empire with the aim to
exterminate them, are being denied. The cutting of Christian population
down to 0.1 percent, which before 1915 approximately was 1/3 of the
Ottoman society, as well as bragging of Turkish nationalist-leaders as
if 99.9 percent of Turkey’s population was turned to Mohammedanism,
is nothing else than a peculiar recognition of committing genocide
towards our Christian neighbors.

Alongside with all this the Turkish government cannot overcome the
threat of dissociation. The main cause of it is in the fact that
the state has not been made answerable for the genocide committed
towards ancient nations who settled Anatolia – Armenians, Assirians
and Greeks. And the policy of using genocide as a tool for creating
a mono-ethnic society in the country has finally exhausted. Author
of the statement, Ali Ertem thinks, the assassination of Hrant Dink
showed that after 1915 nothing has changed in Turkish leaders’ way of
thinking. "Slogans "We all are Armenian" that for the first time were
pronounced in Turkey’s history, with the help of which the country
stood to protect the nation that became victim for genocide, was a
serious blow to chauvinism and denial of Genocide," Ertem underlines,
"Azg" reports.

Last year Ali Ertem gathered 11 000 signatures from Turks residing
in Germany who demand from Turkey to recognize the Armenian Genocide.