Syrian News Center, Syria
Tuesday
Poladian: Turkish acts in Syria are extension of what they committed against Armenians
On April 24, the Armenians commemorate the anniversary of the genocide in which 1 & a half million Armenians were killed at the hands of the Ottoman Empire between 1915 & 1923 in one of the most repulsive massacres in human history. Armenian Ambassador to Syria Dr. Arshag Poladian said that history repeats itself & what Turkish politicians are perpetrating against the Syrian people nowadays is an extension of what they have done to the Armenian people in the past. The Ambassador said that although 103 years have passed since the Armenian genocide, the Armenian people are still struggling to regain their rights & their stolen territory, adding that the issue of the Armenians is presented in international forums & the Armenian people insist on recognition & condemnation of the genocide. Poladian pointed out that the Armenian tragedy was a crime of annihilating an entire nation & erasing its heritage & civilization as it was the result of a tendency to establish a Turkish empire from Anatolia to the easternmost part of Asia. The historical area of Armenia is more than 300000 square kilometers which is 10 times the size of the current Republic of Armenia.