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CENTENNIAL OF ARMENIAN GENOCIDE: ARMENIAN COMMUNITY IN GERMANY MAKING PREPARATIONS
14:19 ~U 11.10.13
About 5 million Turks are living in Germany, but the Armenian community
in Berlin is carrying out activities as the centennial of the Armenian
Genocide is nearing.
Zhirair Kocharyan, a working team member, told journalists on Friday
that the Armenian community is not so strong in Germany, but it
organizes actions every year on April 24.
"We are not so strong to oppose the Turkish community. So we are
cooperating with other national communities," he said. Although
the results are not so obvious, Germany's mass media and academic
community have not a single doubt about the Armenian Genocide.
The Armenian community goes on publishing books about the Armenian
Genocide, and more than 15 volumes have so far been released. The
most important thing is that the German government has allotted a
plot of land for a monument to Armenian Genocide victims. However,
the plot is at one of the pantheons, but the Armenian community wants
to set up the monument in a public place.
With respect to the group's activities aimed at getting the Armenian
Genocide internationally recognized, Zh. Kocharyan noted that
it is a non-Armenian organization, with most of its members being
Germans, which is cooperating with Greek, Assyrian, Aramaic-speaking
Christians, as well as with all those considering genocide a crime
against humanity.
With the German Bundestag's resolution on the Armenian Genocide, Zh.
Kocharyan said that the Bundestag does not recognize the Armenian
Genocide, laying emphasis on Armenian-Turkish rapprochement.
This year, the group has addressed letters to four parties represented
in the German Bundestag urging them to revise the resolution on the
threshold of the centennial of the Armenian Genocide.
"We want the German State to make Turkey realize what actually
happened. From their answers we understood that they did not want to
do anything," Zh. Kocharyan said.
http://www.tert.am/en/news/2013/10/11/jirayr-qocharyan/
14:19 ~U 11.10.13
About 5 million Turks are living in Germany, but the Armenian community
in Berlin is carrying out activities as the centennial of the Armenian
Genocide is nearing.
Zhirair Kocharyan, a working team member, told journalists on Friday
that the Armenian community is not so strong in Germany, but it
organizes actions every year on April 24.
"We are not so strong to oppose the Turkish community. So we are
cooperating with other national communities," he said. Although
the results are not so obvious, Germany's mass media and academic
community have not a single doubt about the Armenian Genocide.
The Armenian community goes on publishing books about the Armenian
Genocide, and more than 15 volumes have so far been released. The
most important thing is that the German government has allotted a
plot of land for a monument to Armenian Genocide victims. However,
the plot is at one of the pantheons, but the Armenian community wants
to set up the monument in a public place.
With respect to the group's activities aimed at getting the Armenian
Genocide internationally recognized, Zh. Kocharyan noted that
it is a non-Armenian organization, with most of its members being
Germans, which is cooperating with Greek, Assyrian, Aramaic-speaking
Christians, as well as with all those considering genocide a crime
against humanity.
With the German Bundestag's resolution on the Armenian Genocide, Zh.
Kocharyan said that the Bundestag does not recognize the Armenian
Genocide, laying emphasis on Armenian-Turkish rapprochement.
This year, the group has addressed letters to four parties represented
in the German Bundestag urging them to revise the resolution on the
threshold of the centennial of the Armenian Genocide.
"We want the German State to make Turkey realize what actually
happened. From their answers we understood that they did not want to
do anything," Zh. Kocharyan said.
http://www.tert.am/en/news/2013/10/11/jirayr-qocharyan/