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EUROPEAN ARMENIANS URGE INTERNATIONAL AGENCIES NOT TO INVOLVE TURKEY IN REGIONAL HUMANITARIAN PROGRAMS
news.am
Nov 17 2011
Armenia
Assembly of Armenians of Europe issued a statement on Wednesday calling
on European and international structures not to involve Turkey in
any regional humanitarian programs.
The statement reads as follows:
Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan is increasing his
pretensions to the role of judge in regional issues. Erdogan reached
the peak when he called on the Syrian regime "not to massacre"
people, adding that "otherwise the history will always remember it
as sanguinary."
How the heir of those who built their state on the corpses of the
Armenian people dares to teach morality to others. Opposing to the
reasonable world and rejecting even the proposals of the progressive
intellectuals of Turkey, instead of acknowledging the monstrous crime
committed by their ancestors against humanity - the Armenian Genocide,
and the fact of forcing Armenians deportation from their historical
native cradle and asking forgiveness, Mr. Erdogan and the rest of the
Turkish officials keep leading the genocide policy trying to dispute
the occurrence of the Armenian genocide.
Mr. Erdogan has no right to teach morality to others unless he listens
to the appeals of the European leaders and comes to terms with the
dark pages of its history, and only after Turkey can be accepted
as a family member of a civilized world. Turkey is also opposed to
proofreading the discriminatory civil legislation of the country. This
demand has been hanging over the country for three decades: first of
all Turkey is urged to abolish the notorious medieval Article 301,
the latest victims of which became the publicist Zarakolu, who used
to voice about the sufferings of national minorities -victims of the
Turkish discriminatory policy.
Turkey's "Zero problem with neighbors" double-natured policy has
turned into "Zero friendship with neighbors" policy. Turkey provokes
daily tension with its neighbors and opposes to the appeals of the
international community continuing persistently the 37-year occupation
of Northern Cyprus.
Hence, naïve would be those, who believe Turkey pursues humanitarian
rather than selfish ends in Gaza, in case it has been blockading the
small Armenia for already 18 years without concealing its chauvinistic
ideas on supporting its brother Azerbaijan.
We appeal on the Arab World, in particular peoples of Egypt, Tunisia,
Lydia, Syria and Iraq not to trust Turkey and remain independent. Arab
people, who met with open arms the survivals of the Armenian genocide
in 1915, were also a victim of Turkey's policy.
It is wrong to trust Turkey today since it no longer hides its dream
of restoring the Ottoman Empire which massacred and enslaved the
peoples of the region.
We appeal on European and international structures not to involve
Turkey in any regional humanitarian programs until it acknowledges the
genocide it committed against Armenians and fulfills the preconditions
set by the European structures.
news.am
Nov 17 2011
Armenia
Assembly of Armenians of Europe issued a statement on Wednesday calling
on European and international structures not to involve Turkey in
any regional humanitarian programs.
The statement reads as follows:
Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan is increasing his
pretensions to the role of judge in regional issues. Erdogan reached
the peak when he called on the Syrian regime "not to massacre"
people, adding that "otherwise the history will always remember it
as sanguinary."
How the heir of those who built their state on the corpses of the
Armenian people dares to teach morality to others. Opposing to the
reasonable world and rejecting even the proposals of the progressive
intellectuals of Turkey, instead of acknowledging the monstrous crime
committed by their ancestors against humanity - the Armenian Genocide,
and the fact of forcing Armenians deportation from their historical
native cradle and asking forgiveness, Mr. Erdogan and the rest of the
Turkish officials keep leading the genocide policy trying to dispute
the occurrence of the Armenian genocide.
Mr. Erdogan has no right to teach morality to others unless he listens
to the appeals of the European leaders and comes to terms with the
dark pages of its history, and only after Turkey can be accepted
as a family member of a civilized world. Turkey is also opposed to
proofreading the discriminatory civil legislation of the country. This
demand has been hanging over the country for three decades: first of
all Turkey is urged to abolish the notorious medieval Article 301,
the latest victims of which became the publicist Zarakolu, who used
to voice about the sufferings of national minorities -victims of the
Turkish discriminatory policy.
Turkey's "Zero problem with neighbors" double-natured policy has
turned into "Zero friendship with neighbors" policy. Turkey provokes
daily tension with its neighbors and opposes to the appeals of the
international community continuing persistently the 37-year occupation
of Northern Cyprus.
Hence, naïve would be those, who believe Turkey pursues humanitarian
rather than selfish ends in Gaza, in case it has been blockading the
small Armenia for already 18 years without concealing its chauvinistic
ideas on supporting its brother Azerbaijan.
We appeal on the Arab World, in particular peoples of Egypt, Tunisia,
Lydia, Syria and Iraq not to trust Turkey and remain independent. Arab
people, who met with open arms the survivals of the Armenian genocide
in 1915, were also a victim of Turkey's policy.
It is wrong to trust Turkey today since it no longer hides its dream
of restoring the Ottoman Empire which massacred and enslaved the
peoples of the region.
We appeal on European and international structures not to involve
Turkey in any regional humanitarian programs until it acknowledges the
genocide it committed against Armenians and fulfills the preconditions
set by the European structures.