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ARAB PRESS REMINDS TURKEY OF ARMENIAN GENOCIDE
Tert.am
12:45 ~U 01.02.10
The persecution and oppression of Kurds in Turkey basically renders
Turkish PM Recep Tayyip Erdogan's calls for justice and compassion
in Gaza worthless, reports the Arab-language London-based publication
Al Hayat.
"Justice and rights cannot be separated from each other. Those who,
in one place, speak of rights and justice, while in another case,
disregard those values, are using double standards. It's no secret
that Turkey's ruling Justice and Development Party works this way.
Turkey has not acknowledged the fact it has committed ethnic cleansing
of millions of Armenians and Assyrians and has displaced these people.
"On the contrary, all those who dare to speak about it are being
prosecuted in Turkey. So far, Turkey has not acknowledged those
massacres and the justice mentioned by Erdogan must also include
recognition of the Genocide committed by the Turkish state," the
paper said.
Al Hayat also reports that the campaign against famous Turkish writer
and Nobel Peace Prize Laureate Orhan Pamuk was launched because he
started speaking about the massacres of Armenians and Kurds that took
place in Turkey.
"For 20 years, the Turkish army killed 30,000 people, thousands of
Kurdish villages were vacated and burned. More than 4 million Kurds
left their homes, ran away and settled in cities.
"Kurdish regions were blockaded which was more horrible than the
blockade of the Gaza Strip by Israel. But neither Erdogan nor his
party members uttered a single word about that; they remembered neither
the slaughtered children nor the crying women," Al Hayat concluded.
Tert.am
12:45 ~U 01.02.10
The persecution and oppression of Kurds in Turkey basically renders
Turkish PM Recep Tayyip Erdogan's calls for justice and compassion
in Gaza worthless, reports the Arab-language London-based publication
Al Hayat.
"Justice and rights cannot be separated from each other. Those who,
in one place, speak of rights and justice, while in another case,
disregard those values, are using double standards. It's no secret
that Turkey's ruling Justice and Development Party works this way.
Turkey has not acknowledged the fact it has committed ethnic cleansing
of millions of Armenians and Assyrians and has displaced these people.
"On the contrary, all those who dare to speak about it are being
prosecuted in Turkey. So far, Turkey has not acknowledged those
massacres and the justice mentioned by Erdogan must also include
recognition of the Genocide committed by the Turkish state," the
paper said.
Al Hayat also reports that the campaign against famous Turkish writer
and Nobel Peace Prize Laureate Orhan Pamuk was launched because he
started speaking about the massacres of Armenians and Kurds that took
place in Turkey.
"For 20 years, the Turkish army killed 30,000 people, thousands of
Kurdish villages were vacated and burned. More than 4 million Kurds
left their homes, ran away and settled in cities.
"Kurdish regions were blockaded which was more horrible than the
blockade of the Gaza Strip by Israel. But neither Erdogan nor his
party members uttered a single word about that; they remembered neither
the slaughtered children nor the crying women," Al Hayat concluded.