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Armenian Youth Federation Confronts Turkish Ambassador in Argentina
Friday, March 27th, 2015
http://asbarez.com/133447/armenian-youth-federation-confronts-turkish-ambassador-in-argentina/
AYF members in Buenos Aires hand out flyers outside of a conference
where Turkey's ambassador was speaking. March, 26, 2015. (Photo: Unión
Juventud Armenia de Sudamérica)
BUENOS AIRES--On Thursday, the Armenian Youth Federation (AYF) of South
America attended the Argentine Council for International Relations
(CARI) to hand out flyers in a presentation made by the Turkish
Ambassador in Argentina, Taner Karakas, on "The foreign policy of
Turkey in 2015."
"The Turkish-Azerbaijani denialist lobby continues spreading lies, and
co-opting academics, politicians and journalists," said the
organization. "We choose again to face the denial of the Turkish state
face to face with its ambassador, providing information about the real
Turkish foreign policy."
The AYF denounced that in 2014, 2,500 people in Turkey suffered
violence and police harassment. "In the Taksim Square protests in
2013, 11 people died, 8,000 were injured and over 3,000 were
arrested."
AYF also recalled that the President of Turkey, Recep Tayyip Erdogan,
said that women are not equal to men because "it goes against nature."
"In 2014, 296 women were killed and 191 were victims of rape."
"In September 2014, Erdogan and the President of Azerbaijan, Ilham
Aliyev, announced that in 2015 they would work 'in a coordinated
manner to dispel the myth of the 'Armenian genocide." The denialist
policy of the Turkish government is institutionalized in the Article
301 of the Turkish Penal Code, under which it can imprison those who
'publicly denigrate Turkishness' or the 'Government of the Republic of
Turkey.' In 2012 and 2013, Turkey was the country with the most
imprisoned journalists in the world, according to the Committee to
Protect Journalists. According to Reporters Without Borders, Turkey is
in the 154th position of 180 countries in its World Ranking of Press
Freedom. In 2014, Erdogan blocked access to Twitter and YouTube before
the municipal elections," the AYF explained.
Finally, the AYF reported that "the Turkish government maintains
closed borders with Armenia unilaterally, in order to drown Armenia
financially until it ceases its claims for justice for the Armenian
Genocide and the struggle for self-determination of Artsakh."
http://asbarez.com/133447/armenian-youth-federation-confronts-turkish-ambassador-in-argentina/
From: Baghdasarian
Friday, March 27th, 2015
http://asbarez.com/133447/armenian-youth-federation-confronts-turkish-ambassador-in-argentina/
AYF members in Buenos Aires hand out flyers outside of a conference
where Turkey's ambassador was speaking. March, 26, 2015. (Photo: Unión
Juventud Armenia de Sudamérica)
BUENOS AIRES--On Thursday, the Armenian Youth Federation (AYF) of South
America attended the Argentine Council for International Relations
(CARI) to hand out flyers in a presentation made by the Turkish
Ambassador in Argentina, Taner Karakas, on "The foreign policy of
Turkey in 2015."
"The Turkish-Azerbaijani denialist lobby continues spreading lies, and
co-opting academics, politicians and journalists," said the
organization. "We choose again to face the denial of the Turkish state
face to face with its ambassador, providing information about the real
Turkish foreign policy."
The AYF denounced that in 2014, 2,500 people in Turkey suffered
violence and police harassment. "In the Taksim Square protests in
2013, 11 people died, 8,000 were injured and over 3,000 were
arrested."
AYF also recalled that the President of Turkey, Recep Tayyip Erdogan,
said that women are not equal to men because "it goes against nature."
"In 2014, 296 women were killed and 191 were victims of rape."
"In September 2014, Erdogan and the President of Azerbaijan, Ilham
Aliyev, announced that in 2015 they would work 'in a coordinated
manner to dispel the myth of the 'Armenian genocide." The denialist
policy of the Turkish government is institutionalized in the Article
301 of the Turkish Penal Code, under which it can imprison those who
'publicly denigrate Turkishness' or the 'Government of the Republic of
Turkey.' In 2012 and 2013, Turkey was the country with the most
imprisoned journalists in the world, according to the Committee to
Protect Journalists. According to Reporters Without Borders, Turkey is
in the 154th position of 180 countries in its World Ranking of Press
Freedom. In 2014, Erdogan blocked access to Twitter and YouTube before
the municipal elections," the AYF explained.
Finally, the AYF reported that "the Turkish government maintains
closed borders with Armenia unilaterally, in order to drown Armenia
financially until it ceases its claims for justice for the Armenian
Genocide and the struggle for self-determination of Artsakh."
http://asbarez.com/133447/armenian-youth-federation-confronts-turkish-ambassador-in-argentina/
From: Baghdasarian