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  • BEIRUT: Aram I To Erdogan: You Will Be Credible Only If You Recogniz

    ARAM I TO ERDOGAN: YOU WILL BE CREDIBLE ONLY IF YOU RECOGNIZE ARMENIAN GENOCIDE

    iloubnan.info, Lebanon
    Sept 30 2011

    Armenian Catholicos of the Greek Romanian, Aram I Kechichian, asked
    Turkey's Recep Tayyip Erdogan in a letter he sent to him on Friday, to
    respect human rights and justice, and to recognize Armenian genocide,

    "You will be credible only if you recognize the genocide," he said
    herein.

    The letter came days after Prime Minister Erdogan signed a decree
    that supposedly will return hundreds of buildings that belonged to
    Christian and Jewish community foundations or charitable trusts,
    confiscated since 1936, when the Turkish government demanded that
    all non-Muslim foundations declare their property holdings.

    There are currently 162 such trusts registered in the Republic
    of Turkey.

    "Decisions adopted in the name of justice are not complete as long
    as you (Erdogan) refuse to recognize History and democratic values
    and principles," the letter read.

    During World War I, large numbers of Armenians were methodically
    massacred throughout the Ottoman Empire. In 1915, thirty-three years
    before UN Genocide Convention was adopted, the Armenian Genocide was
    condemned by the international community as a crime against humanity.

    http://www.iloubnan.info/politics/actualite/id/66954

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