EAFJD CONDEMNS POGROMS ORGANIZED BY TURKISH FASCISTS IN BRUSSELS
PanARMENIAN.Net
26.10.2007 18:06 GMT+04:00
/PanARMENIAN.Net/ The European Armenian Federation condemns pogroms
organized by Turkish fascists in Europe.
A demonstration organized two days ago by the Turkish extremist
right-wing group, the sinister Grey Wolves, caused chaos and mass
violent disturbance in Brussels.
"The European Armenian Federation strongly condemns the import into
Europe of these racist and criminal customs which are well-known by
the Armenians as a prelude to the systematic massacres of Armenian
citizens. "We are expecting from the police and judicial authorities
exemplary reaction regarding members of these criminal bands and
their rulers" declared Laurent Leylekian, the director of the European
Armenian Federation," EAFJD told PanARMENIAN.Net.
He added, "We know that Turkey is always behind these pogroms. The
Federation is certain that the Turkish State bodies – police,
army, and judicial powers – are deeply infiltrated by these ultra
nationalistic units, and it is attested that Ankara regularly gives
orders to the Grey Wolves paramilitary forces, orders that emanate
from the MHP (political group represented in the Turkish Parliament)
to accomplish their dirty jobs in Turkey as well as in Europe."
"The freedoms that these criminal groups have in Europe is encouraged
by the indulgent attitude of our institutions towards racism. Turkish
state ultra nationalism, compromise from our institutions (European
Parliament and Commission, national and European political parties)
towards the systematic denial of the Turkish state is interpreted
by Ankara as authorization to develop its ultra nationalism in the
European Union," concluded Leylekian.
On Wednesday night some 200 people, belonging to Gray Wolves extreme
movement, destroyed and set to fire Jardin de Babylone cafe owned by an
Iraqi Armenian in the neighborhood Saint-Josse-Ten-Noode of Brussels.
A little before in the evening the hooligans had pulled out then
burned the American flag which was hanging on the frontage of the
U.S. Embassy.
Mehmet Koksal, a Belgian journalist of Turkish origin, who filmed
the scene, was severely beaten by the extremists howling hostile and
insulting the U.S. slogans.
This demonstration would have a direct relation to the Turkish-Kurdish
confrontation that has claimed lives of 12 Turkish soldiers are 23
Kurdish rebels.