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LISTENING TO TURKEY'S ARMENIANS - REPORT
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Sept 26 2011
Armenia
ISTANBUL. - The Turkish Economic and Social Studies Foundation (TESEV)
presented a special report devoted to Armenians in Turkey.
TESEV's report, entitled "Listening to Turkey's Armenians: Questions,
Demands and Solution Proposals," recommends that the Turkish state
provide assistance in the publication of textbooks for Armenian
schools, the teachers' salaries be raised through state funding,
Armenian language and literature departments be established in Turkey's
universities, and conditions be established for Armenian-language
radio and theaters, Turkey's Milliyet daily writes.
The report also requires that constitutional equality be guaranteed
for all ethnic groups in Turkey, and thus the article on "insulting
Turkishness" also include other ethnic and religious minorities. The
report also demands that clergy be trained at Istanbul's Surp Khach
(Holy Cross) Armenian seminary.
"Considering the Lausanne Treaty, the [Turkish] state must not
allow the assimilation of Armenian identity and culture. There
must be legislative regulations to make teaching children from
Armenia their mother tongue meet UN Convention on the Rights of the
Child. The textbooks must be rid of expressions sowing enmity and
hatred against Armenians. Restored churches must be returned to the
Armenian Patriarchate in Istanbul, and liturgy must be allowed to be
held in those churches," TESEV's report states.
In the report's section on Armenian-Turkish relations, it is noted
that opening of the borders between Armenia and Turkey and the
implementation of the protocols would contribute to the normalization
of relations between both countries. "The concept of 'zero problems
with neighbors' must be implemented, without concentrating on the
Karabakh and Genocide problem," the report says, and it also demands
that the real culprits behind Turkish-Armenian journalist Hrant Dink's
murder be exposed and to punish all public servants who are guilty.
From: Baghdasarian
news.am
Sept 26 2011
Armenia
ISTANBUL. - The Turkish Economic and Social Studies Foundation (TESEV)
presented a special report devoted to Armenians in Turkey.
TESEV's report, entitled "Listening to Turkey's Armenians: Questions,
Demands and Solution Proposals," recommends that the Turkish state
provide assistance in the publication of textbooks for Armenian
schools, the teachers' salaries be raised through state funding,
Armenian language and literature departments be established in Turkey's
universities, and conditions be established for Armenian-language
radio and theaters, Turkey's Milliyet daily writes.
The report also requires that constitutional equality be guaranteed
for all ethnic groups in Turkey, and thus the article on "insulting
Turkishness" also include other ethnic and religious minorities. The
report also demands that clergy be trained at Istanbul's Surp Khach
(Holy Cross) Armenian seminary.
"Considering the Lausanne Treaty, the [Turkish] state must not
allow the assimilation of Armenian identity and culture. There
must be legislative regulations to make teaching children from
Armenia their mother tongue meet UN Convention on the Rights of the
Child. The textbooks must be rid of expressions sowing enmity and
hatred against Armenians. Restored churches must be returned to the
Armenian Patriarchate in Istanbul, and liturgy must be allowed to be
held in those churches," TESEV's report states.
In the report's section on Armenian-Turkish relations, it is noted
that opening of the borders between Armenia and Turkey and the
implementation of the protocols would contribute to the normalization
of relations between both countries. "The concept of 'zero problems
with neighbors' must be implemented, without concentrating on the
Karabakh and Genocide problem," the report says, and it also demands
that the real culprits behind Turkish-Armenian journalist Hrant Dink's
murder be exposed and to punish all public servants who are guilty.
From: Baghdasarian