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CYPRUS MARKS ARMENIAN GENOCIDE
Cyprus Mail
25 April 08
THE ARMENIAN community in Cyprus yesterday marked the anniversary of
the 1915 genocide by Turkey, with a call to Ankara to recognise its
historical crimes.
The 93rd anniversary was marked by a series of events under the
auspices of House President Marios Karoyan, who is Armenian.
Yesterday's event involved a service at the Armenian church, and a
march in Nicosia.
Vartkes Mahdessian, the Armenian Representative at the House, said that
the message the Armenian people wanted to send was one of continuous
struggle to internationalise and resolve the Armenian question,
and also to receive acknowledgement and condemnation of the genocide.
"The Armenians will continue their struggle until the final
justification, a duty owed to the victims of the genocide," Mahdessian
said. "It is time that the political leadership of Turkey found
the courage to recognise the crimes the previous Turkish governments
committed, justifying the victims of not only the Armenian genocide but
of the Greeks, Cypriots, Kurds, Arabs, Pontic Greeks and other peoples,
in the hope that it will at some point join the European Union."
Karoyan, in an official statement, reiterated the support of the
House to the demand of the Armenian people for the recognition of
the genocide.
He called on Turkey to recognise and admit its crime and to apologise
to the Armenian people and humanity as a whole.
"We do not beg, we do not implore. We demand justice from the
contemporary democratic humanity, the entire international community,
all the nations and all the peoples. Nothing more, nothing less,"
he said.
Cyprus Mail
25 April 08
THE ARMENIAN community in Cyprus yesterday marked the anniversary of
the 1915 genocide by Turkey, with a call to Ankara to recognise its
historical crimes.
The 93rd anniversary was marked by a series of events under the
auspices of House President Marios Karoyan, who is Armenian.
Yesterday's event involved a service at the Armenian church, and a
march in Nicosia.
Vartkes Mahdessian, the Armenian Representative at the House, said that
the message the Armenian people wanted to send was one of continuous
struggle to internationalise and resolve the Armenian question,
and also to receive acknowledgement and condemnation of the genocide.
"The Armenians will continue their struggle until the final
justification, a duty owed to the victims of the genocide," Mahdessian
said. "It is time that the political leadership of Turkey found
the courage to recognise the crimes the previous Turkish governments
committed, justifying the victims of not only the Armenian genocide but
of the Greeks, Cypriots, Kurds, Arabs, Pontic Greeks and other peoples,
in the hope that it will at some point join the European Union."
Karoyan, in an official statement, reiterated the support of the
House to the demand of the Armenian people for the recognition of
the genocide.
He called on Turkey to recognise and admit its crime and to apologise
to the Armenian people and humanity as a whole.
"We do not beg, we do not implore. We demand justice from the
contemporary democratic humanity, the entire international community,
all the nations and all the peoples. Nothing more, nothing less,"
he said.