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ARMENIANS IN ROME CALL ON MEDIA TO SCRAP 'YOUNG TURKS' TERM
ANSA Med, Italy
April 24, 2013 Wednesday 5:56 PM CET
On 98th anniversary of 1915 Turkish genocide of 1.5mln Armenians
(ANSAmed) - ROME, APRIL 24 - Today is the 98th anniversary of the
Armenian genocide at the hands of the Ottoman government, and the
local Armenian community has called on Italian media to scrap the term
"young Turks" when describing a Democratic Party faction.
"For us those words recall the horror of the Great Crime (the Medz
Yeghern, in Armenian) and of the regime of terror that led to
genocide", Armenian community leaders said in a note Wednesday.
The starting date of the extermination of 1.5 million Armenians is
conventionally held to be the night of April 24, 1915, when police
instigated by the so-called Young Turks in the Ottoman government
arrested hundreds of Armenian journalists, writers, lawyers, priests
and other members of the intelligentsia.
Unlike Germany following World War II, Turkey has yet to acknowledge
its government once followed a policy of extermination of its Armenian
minority.
In its 2013 slogan, the Armenian community in Rome exhorted everyone
to "stop and think about what happened in 1915. About this past that
won't pass, and that needs to be remembered. Stop and think. Don't
become an accomplice of negationism".
ANSA Med, Italy
April 24, 2013 Wednesday 5:56 PM CET
On 98th anniversary of 1915 Turkish genocide of 1.5mln Armenians
(ANSAmed) - ROME, APRIL 24 - Today is the 98th anniversary of the
Armenian genocide at the hands of the Ottoman government, and the
local Armenian community has called on Italian media to scrap the term
"young Turks" when describing a Democratic Party faction.
"For us those words recall the horror of the Great Crime (the Medz
Yeghern, in Armenian) and of the regime of terror that led to
genocide", Armenian community leaders said in a note Wednesday.
The starting date of the extermination of 1.5 million Armenians is
conventionally held to be the night of April 24, 1915, when police
instigated by the so-called Young Turks in the Ottoman government
arrested hundreds of Armenian journalists, writers, lawyers, priests
and other members of the intelligentsia.
Unlike Germany following World War II, Turkey has yet to acknowledge
its government once followed a policy of extermination of its Armenian
minority.
In its 2013 slogan, the Armenian community in Rome exhorted everyone
to "stop and think about what happened in 1915. About this past that
won't pass, and that needs to be remembered. Stop and think. Don't
become an accomplice of negationism".