TURKISH YOUNG PEOPLE PROTEST AGAINST ERDOGAN’S STATEMENT

news.am
March 18 2010
Armenia

The statement Turkish Premier Recep Erdogan is evoking more and more
responses. Young people gathered in Galatasaray Square and severely
criticized Premier Erdogan and the members of the Grand National
Assembly representing the opposition anti-Armenian Republican People’s
Party (RPP) (Turkish: Cumhuriyet Halk Partisi (CHP)), particularly
the notorious Armenophobe Caman Aritman.

The Turkey-based Samanyolu news agency reported that the participants
in the action carried a placard with a photomontage, Talaat Pasha
with Erdogan’s head, with Canam Aritman besides him. An inscription
below said: "Erdogan: We will make Armenians go through Erzurum-Kars"
and Aritman: Naked and on foot."

Cener Kenar, who spoke at the meeting, said: "In those times they did
not ask: what would a state that responded to a Committee’s decision in
this way in 2010 have done in 1915? The state reflex has not changed
for 95 years. How many premiers have changed from Talaat Pasha to
Erdogan Pasha. The premier’s statements are against conscience and
international law. Are we advocates of Talaat Pasha or Enver Pasha? We
do not want to be grandchildren of Talaat, Enver, and all those that
organized Armenian pogroms. We want to be grandchildren of those who
hid Armenians in their homes thereby saving them from massacres,"
he said.