Armenian Solidarity
contact: name: Eilian Williams
c/p The Temple of Peace, Cathays Park
Cardiff, Wales
Tel: 00 44 07876561398
Email: eilian@nant.wanadoo.co.uk
A warm invitation to a meetings on Middle-East Minorities to mark the
60TH anniversary of the UN Genocide Convention, on Tuesday, 9TH December
"The Minorities of Turkey face continuing Cultural Genocide"
In Committee Room 17 of the House of Commons, London
at 12 noon, 9th December 2008
Agenda:
1 – The recent comments by the Turkish Prime Minister and
Defence Minister
Prime Minister Recep T. Erdogan, on 4th November 2008 (at the press
conference for the visit of the Lebanese Prime Minister, Fuad
Siniora),said that "Turkey consists of one nation, one flag and one
land and that anyone who is not in agreement with this should leave
the country".
On the 10th november in Brussels,Turkish Defence Minister Vecdi Gönül
celebrated the genocide of Armenians, praising the policy of what he
termed the "deportation", because it allowed the construction of the
Turkish nation. And he added: "Would it be possible today to maintain
the same national State if the existence of Greeks in the Aegean
region and of Armenians in several regions of Turkey had continued as
before?"
2 – The Human Rights of Kurds, Armenians, Assyrians,
Crypto-Armenians, Crypto-Assyrians
Speakers:
Desmond Fernandes(Author of The Kurdish and Armenian Genocide)
Prof Khatchatur Pilikian
Akif Wan
Rebwar Fatah (Kurdish Media)
An Assyrian/Syriac speaker from Turkey
Sponsor and Chair : Dr. Bob Spink MP (Independent)
Co-organisers: Solidarity with the Victims of All Genocides, (SVAG)
Nor Serount Cultural Association
CHAK (Centre of Halabja)
supported by
Seyfo Centre
RSVP to eilian@nant.wanadoo.co.uk 07876561398 or 07718982732
From: Emil Lazarian | Ararat NewsPress