Kurdistan Committee calls for recognition of Kurds,Armenian Genocide

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Kurdistan Committee calls for recognition of Kurds, Armenian Genocide by Turkey

Yerkir
16.12.2004  17:10    

YEREVAN (YERKIR) - The Kurdistan Committee of Armenia has called on
Turkey to officially recognize the Kurdish ethnicity with mentioning
"Kurd" -- instead of the "Turk" used currently -- for nationality in
the Kurds' passports, recognize the Kurdish language as the second
language of Turkey and free their leader Abdullah Ocalan, Armenpress
reported.

Kniaz Hasanov of the Committee said that in their letter to the Yerevan
offices of the European Parliament, European Union, the OSCE, as well
as embassies of UK, US, France and Italy, they demanded also that
Turkey should acknowledgement of the Armenian Genocide and apologizing
for it should be made a pre-condition for Turkey's accession to the
European Union.

There are 40 million Kurds in the world, with 20 million residing
in Turkey, 9 million in Iran, 5 to 6 million in Iraq, 3 million in
Syria, 2 million in other countries. In Armenia there are 42,000
Kurds and Yezids.

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