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ARMENIAN GENOCIDE VICTIMS COMMEMORATED IN TURKEY'S ISTANBUL (VIDEO, PHOTOS)
http://www.tert.am/en/news/2013/04/25/taksim-genocide/
09:49 ~U 25.04.13
An event dedicated to the 98th anniversary of the Armenian
Genocide took place yesterday in Istanbul Taksim Square. According
to Istanbul-based Armenian-Turkish newspaper Agos, the participants
held a vigil and left flowers there.
Hundreds of people, including well-known Turkish journalists
participated in the event. Addressing the present, ex president of
Doctor's Union of Turkey Gencai Gursoi said that the target of 1915
arrests were the 'brains' of the Armenian people.
"April 24 is considered the beginning of the Armenian Genocide.
Hundred thousands of Armenians, abandoning their houses, their work,
their property were forced to desserts and were killed on the way.
Families were torn apart, children grew up without parents, parents
were left without children and never found each other. Tens of
thousands died of diseases, hunger," he said.
Gursoi noted that for many years an attempt was made to erase not only
Armenians from the memory of Turks but their culture as well but they
failed and today they are sharing the pain and grief of the genocide.
http://www.tert.am/en/news/2013/04/25/taksim-genocide/
09:49 ~U 25.04.13
An event dedicated to the 98th anniversary of the Armenian
Genocide took place yesterday in Istanbul Taksim Square. According
to Istanbul-based Armenian-Turkish newspaper Agos, the participants
held a vigil and left flowers there.
Hundreds of people, including well-known Turkish journalists
participated in the event. Addressing the present, ex president of
Doctor's Union of Turkey Gencai Gursoi said that the target of 1915
arrests were the 'brains' of the Armenian people.
"April 24 is considered the beginning of the Armenian Genocide.
Hundred thousands of Armenians, abandoning their houses, their work,
their property were forced to desserts and were killed on the way.
Families were torn apart, children grew up without parents, parents
were left without children and never found each other. Tens of
thousands died of diseases, hunger," he said.
Gursoi noted that for many years an attempt was made to erase not only
Armenians from the memory of Turks but their culture as well but they
failed and today they are sharing the pain and grief of the genocide.