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TOWARDS KURDISH-ARMENIAN RECONCILIATION
World War 4 Report
Dec 17 2014
Submitted by WW4 Report on Wed, 12/17/2014 - 02:43
At an event held in Sweden, the Kurdish mayor of the eastern Turkish
city of Mardin, Ahmet Turk, apologized to the Armenians, Assyrians
and Yazidis for the fact that some Kurdish ashirets (clans) had been
accomplices during the Genocide of 1915. "Unfortunately, the Kurds, who
implemented and executed the government's decision taken in 1914-15,
were overtly used under the name of Islam," Turk said. "We now feel
the bitterness about the participation of our fathers and forefathers
in those massacres as their children and grandchildren...
We ask the Armenians and the Assyrians and our Yezidi brothers
to forgive us." (ArmenPress, Dec. 16) Turk was party chair of the
Democratic Society Party (DTP), which was banned in 2009 for alleged
ties to the Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK).
http://ww4report.com/node/13823
From: A. Papazian
World War 4 Report
Dec 17 2014
Submitted by WW4 Report on Wed, 12/17/2014 - 02:43
At an event held in Sweden, the Kurdish mayor of the eastern Turkish
city of Mardin, Ahmet Turk, apologized to the Armenians, Assyrians
and Yazidis for the fact that some Kurdish ashirets (clans) had been
accomplices during the Genocide of 1915. "Unfortunately, the Kurds, who
implemented and executed the government's decision taken in 1914-15,
were overtly used under the name of Islam," Turk said. "We now feel
the bitterness about the participation of our fathers and forefathers
in those massacres as their children and grandchildren...
We ask the Armenians and the Assyrians and our Yezidi brothers
to forgive us." (ArmenPress, Dec. 16) Turk was party chair of the
Democratic Society Party (DTP), which was banned in 2009 for alleged
ties to the Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK).
http://ww4report.com/node/13823
From: A. Papazian