Azg Daily, Armenia
March 20 2010

TURKISH YOUNG PEOPLE PROTEST AGAINST ERDOGAN’S STATEMENT

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, news.am repored.

According to the source, 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.