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ARMENIANS BACK TURKEY'S PRESIDENTIAL CHALLENGER DEMIRTAS
Thursday, July 17th, 2014
http://asbarez.com/125045/armenians-back-turkeys-presidential-challenger-demirtas/
Turkish presidential candidate Selahattin Demirtas
ANKARA--A Turkish-Armenian organization, Nor Zartonk (New Renaissance),
has declared its support for Selahattin Demirtas in the presidential
elections to be held on Aug. 10.
Issuing a written statement, Nor Zartonk said: "The people, workers,
and all the excluded have an alternative in these elections against
the conservative, nationalist, and statist tradition," pointing
to Demirtas.
Nor Zartonk emphasized that the candidate of the ruling party, Recep
Tayyip Erdogan, has been a person continuing to pursue a century-old
state policy of denial, adding that the joint candidate of CHP-MHP
Ekmeleddin Ä°hsanoglu is "a candidate to be the new face of the
moderate Islam project".
Nor Zartonk added:
"The people of Turkey are not condemned to these two right wing
candidates, one being an exact copy of the other despite their being
promoted in that way. The candidate of the People's Democratic Party,
Selahattin Demirtas, as 'the candidate of the people and of change'
is the hope of all the working people in the August elections.
"Against the two self-same candidates who are in favor of the
continuation of the statist policies and the policies of denial, our
presidential candidate is Selahattin Demirtas, who marches hand in
hand with the people from Sivas to Lice, who exclaims the reality of
the Armenian genocide in parliament, has struggled against all kinds
of discrimination throughout his life and who defends the rights of
the workers, LGBTI individuals and all the oppressed."
Nor Zartonk (Renaissance) is an Armenian organization defining itself
as the "self-organization" of the Armenian people. Having as their
point of focus the Armenian people living in Turkey, Nor Zartonk says
they struggle for the co-existence of all the peoples of Turkey and
the world in equality, peace and fraternity. Nor Zartonk also declares
that they have no hierarchical structure or administrative positions
amongst themselves.
Thursday, July 17th, 2014
http://asbarez.com/125045/armenians-back-turkeys-presidential-challenger-demirtas/
Turkish presidential candidate Selahattin Demirtas
ANKARA--A Turkish-Armenian organization, Nor Zartonk (New Renaissance),
has declared its support for Selahattin Demirtas in the presidential
elections to be held on Aug. 10.
Issuing a written statement, Nor Zartonk said: "The people, workers,
and all the excluded have an alternative in these elections against
the conservative, nationalist, and statist tradition," pointing
to Demirtas.
Nor Zartonk emphasized that the candidate of the ruling party, Recep
Tayyip Erdogan, has been a person continuing to pursue a century-old
state policy of denial, adding that the joint candidate of CHP-MHP
Ekmeleddin Ä°hsanoglu is "a candidate to be the new face of the
moderate Islam project".
Nor Zartonk added:
"The people of Turkey are not condemned to these two right wing
candidates, one being an exact copy of the other despite their being
promoted in that way. The candidate of the People's Democratic Party,
Selahattin Demirtas, as 'the candidate of the people and of change'
is the hope of all the working people in the August elections.
"Against the two self-same candidates who are in favor of the
continuation of the statist policies and the policies of denial, our
presidential candidate is Selahattin Demirtas, who marches hand in
hand with the people from Sivas to Lice, who exclaims the reality of
the Armenian genocide in parliament, has struggled against all kinds
of discrimination throughout his life and who defends the rights of
the workers, LGBTI individuals and all the oppressed."
Nor Zartonk (Renaissance) is an Armenian organization defining itself
as the "self-organization" of the Armenian people. Having as their
point of focus the Armenian people living in Turkey, Nor Zartonk says
they struggle for the co-existence of all the peoples of Turkey and
the world in equality, peace and fraternity. Nor Zartonk also declares
that they have no hierarchical structure or administrative positions
amongst themselves.