ARMENIANS, ASSYRIANS AND GREEKS COMMEMORATED HRANT DINK AND FUAD DENIZ

PanARMENIAN.Net
22.01.2008 15:31 GMT+04:00

/PanARMENIAN.Net/ Events in commemoration of Agos editor Hrant Dink
were held in Moscow January 19 on initiative of the Youth Union of
the Armenian Apostolic Church and a number of youth organizations.

A liturgy in memory of Christians slaughtered in Turkey was chanted
in Surb Harutyun Church.

A picket with participation of the Armenian, Assyrian and Greek
communities of Moscow was organized at the Turkish Embassy. The
demonstrators lit candles at the portraits of Hrant Dink and Fuad
Deniz, a historian of Assyrian descent who was killed last December
in Sweden.

During round table discussions the youth organizations adopted a
resolution calling on Turkey to repeal article 301 and drop prosecution
of publisher Ragip Zakaroglu. The resolution also calls on the U.S.

Congress to recognize the Armenian Genocide as a precondition for
Turkey’s accession to the EU and condemn the genocide of Armenians,
Assyrians, Jews and other national minorities in the Ottoman Empire
to prevent future crimes against humanity, Genocide.ru reports.