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WHAT SHOULD ARMENIA DEMAND FROM TURKEY?
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07:34 PM | APRIL 24, 2013 | POLITICS
Leader of the opposition Heritage Party, Raffi Hovannisian, demands
that Turkey compensate Armenians and establish good relations with
Armenia.
Instead of avoiding responsibility and denying the historical fact,
Turkey should establish friendly relations with Armenia, admit
the bitter truth and open its borders with Armenia," said Raffi
Hovannisian.
Before ascending the Tsitsernakaberd hilltop to commemorate the
Genocide victims, the Heritage party leader also demanded that Turkey
return Armenian churches.
The same demand was voice in the joint statement issued by His Holiness
Karekin II, Supreme Patriarch and Catholicos of All Armenians,
and His Holiness Aram I, Catholicos of the Great House of Cilicia,
earlier on Wednesday. In a letter addressed to the Turkish leadership,
the two spiritual leaders demand that Armenian churches, monasteries,
church properties, and spiritual and cultural treasures be returned
to the Armenian people as their rightful owner.
A young man marching silently to the Genocide Memorial said frankly,
"We should take revenge on Turkey for the innocent blood of the 1.5
million Armenians killed by the Turks and demand material compensation
from Turkey." However, he thinks that the acting authorities in Armenia
cannot set such demands before Turkey; hence they should be replaced
by new ones.
Let us remind that Serzh Sargsyan has not referred to any compensation
in his address on the Genocide Remembrance issued on April 24.
"Each April 24th is the opportunity to renew our pledge to be loyal
to the Armenian statehood whose existence precludes and will continue
to preclude the repetition of the Armenian Genocide," he said in
the address.
http://www.a1plus.am/en/politics/2013/04/24/turkey-demand
07:34 PM | APRIL 24, 2013 | POLITICS
Leader of the opposition Heritage Party, Raffi Hovannisian, demands
that Turkey compensate Armenians and establish good relations with
Armenia.
Instead of avoiding responsibility and denying the historical fact,
Turkey should establish friendly relations with Armenia, admit
the bitter truth and open its borders with Armenia," said Raffi
Hovannisian.
Before ascending the Tsitsernakaberd hilltop to commemorate the
Genocide victims, the Heritage party leader also demanded that Turkey
return Armenian churches.
The same demand was voice in the joint statement issued by His Holiness
Karekin II, Supreme Patriarch and Catholicos of All Armenians,
and His Holiness Aram I, Catholicos of the Great House of Cilicia,
earlier on Wednesday. In a letter addressed to the Turkish leadership,
the two spiritual leaders demand that Armenian churches, monasteries,
church properties, and spiritual and cultural treasures be returned
to the Armenian people as their rightful owner.
A young man marching silently to the Genocide Memorial said frankly,
"We should take revenge on Turkey for the innocent blood of the 1.5
million Armenians killed by the Turks and demand material compensation
from Turkey." However, he thinks that the acting authorities in Armenia
cannot set such demands before Turkey; hence they should be replaced
by new ones.
Let us remind that Serzh Sargsyan has not referred to any compensation
in his address on the Genocide Remembrance issued on April 24.
"Each April 24th is the opportunity to renew our pledge to be loyal
to the Armenian statehood whose existence precludes and will continue
to preclude the repetition of the Armenian Genocide," he said in
the address.