INTERNATIONAL GROUP OF 2400 DESCENDANTS OF THE GENOCIDE VICTIMS APPEALED TO THE PRESIDENT IN OPEN LETTER

Noyan Tapan
April 8, 2009
Yerevan

International Group of 2400 descendants of the victims of 1915 Genocide
in Ottoman Imperia appealed to Armenia’s President Serge Sarkisian
in open letter. It is stated, particularly:

"By our activities we implement the Declaration of Human Rights, which
is the basis of the world democracies, in which we live. Armenians
from all over world have numerous rights.

1. Right of choice: continue expecting for the public recognition of
the Armenian Genocide by Turkey, which has not been accomplished for
more than 90 years, or stop waiting and start exercising own rights,
privately and with private rights.

2. Right of choice: to obtain inherited property, that is, houses and
lands, belonging to our ascendants or to receive the replacement of
their value.

3. Right of choice: to receive today the compensation in the sum
of estate (in the form of investments, insurance, debts, etc), and
continue waiting for the solution of the issue by public law".

According to the letter, the purpose of the group is to create a
large-scale judicial precedent for reciving a partial pecuniary
compensation of inherited property. "This precedent will become a
mechanism, which will enable any successor of Genocide: Armenians,
Greeks, Assyrians, Ezids, start a process for obtaining the whole
inherited property.

Over the past several years our activities on protecting human rights
have been focused on the Armenian nationwide humanitarian program
"In the Memory of Successors".

Today more than a hundred countries of the world, including Turkey,
have joined efforts for the obligatory law of bills and circulating
notes. This law enables to create a circulating note equal to the value
of the decedent’s estate. Court examines the validity of presented
papers and the fact of notes being in financial circulation. The
Decision of the court is obligatory for the countries subjected to
the application of the law.

An Heir will receive the sum equal to the circulating note from the
financial market without being aware, who would buy his note. The
ultimate purchaser of the note will be definitely Turkey’s Treasury,
since the circulating note will be part of ultimate transaction
between Turkey and its partners.

Today all 2400 descendants and participants of the "In the memory
of Successors" program, who voluntarily have purchased circulating
notes and put them in circulation, are aware, that the decision of
the court, besides economical, has also political implications.

Thus, they make a request to the head of the Armenian State for
presenting his attitude to activities of the participants of "In
the memory of successors" initiative. Currently, "before suing to a
law-court, admit the fact of financial circulation of notes of 2400
true heirs", stated in the letter.