TURKISH LAWYERS APOLOGIZE TO ARMENIANS FOR GENOCIDE

17:18 * 09.04.15

A scheduled conference devoted to the denial of the Armenian Genocide
has angered several Turkish lawyers from Izmir.

The local branch of the Association of Modern Lawyers has issued a
statement, apologizing to the Armenians.

The association says that an alliance of lawyers responsible for
establishing justice in Turkey is sure that what happened in the
Ottoman Empire in the World War II era was a crime of Genocide
committed under the pretext of displacement.

The authors of the statement noted that among the Armenians arrested
and exiled to death on April 24, 1915, there were also lawyers and
advocates.

“We, as lawyers from Izmir, will not allow that the crimes and the
genocide committed against the Armenians be consigned to oblivion. We
apologize to the Armenian people on behalf of the organization we
are members of,” reads the statement.