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    Turkish Organizations Honor Armenian Genocide Victims

    Turkish organizations of Germany to honor victims of Armenian Genocide
    20.04.2007 16:49 GMT+04:00
    /PanARMENIAN.Net/ On the initiative of “Union against Genocide” an event will be organized in Frankfurt April 24, dedicated to the Armenian Genocide. Organizers demand to proclaim April 24 as a universal mourning day for all nations of Turkey.

    According to Turkish journalist Ali Ertem, head of the organization established by Turks residing in Germany, other organizations participate in the event too. Particularly they are - Federation of Turkish workers of Germany, Federation of Democratic Nations of Germany, Federation of Worker Immigrants of Germany, “Union of Workers – Brotherhood of Nations” organization and “Union for Struggle” newspaper.

    The statement of “Union against Genocide” reads as follows, “Immigrants from Turkey feel great sorrow concerning the fact, that today genocides, which took place 92 years ago and were committed between 1915-23 towards Christian nations of the Ottoman Empire with the aim to exterminate them, are being denied. The cutting of Christian population down to 0.1 percent, which before 1915 approximately was 1/3 of the Ottoman society, as well as bragging of Turkish nationalist-leaders as if 99.9 percent of Turkey’s population was turned to Mohammedanism, is nothing else than a peculiar recognition of committing genocide towards our Christian neighbors.

    Alongside with all this the Turkish government cannot overcome the threat of dissociation. The main cause of it is in the fact that the state has not been made answerable for the genocide committed towards ancient nations who settled Anatolia – Armenians, Assirians and Greeks. And the policy of using genocide as a tool for creating a mono-ethnic society in the country has finally exhausted. Author of the statement, Ali Ertem thinks, the assassination of Hrant Dink showed that after 1915 nothing has changed in Turkish leaders’ way of thinking. “Slogans “We all are Armenian” that for the first time were pronounced in Turkey’s history, with the help of which the country stood to protect the nation that became victim for genocide, was a serious blow to chauvinism and denial of Genocide,” Ertem underlines, “Azg” reports.

    Last year Ali Ertem gathered 11 000 signatures from Turks residing in Germany who demand from Turkey to recognize the Armenian Genocide.
    General Antranik (1865-1927): “I am not a nationalist. I recognize only one nation, the nation of the oppressed.”
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    I wonder if any Armenian organizations or prominent Armenians have reached out to Mr. Ertem. This man is extraordinary in terms of the statements he makes and the effort he puts into recongnition of the Genocide by Turkish Germans. Somebody should learn more about this man and figure out a way to help him or work with him in getting his message out.

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      Originally posted by phantom View Post
      I wonder if any Armenian organizations or prominent Armenians have reached out to Mr. Ertem. This man is extraordinary in terms of the statements he makes and the effort he puts into recongnition of the Genocide by Turkish Germans. Somebody should learn more about this man and figure out a way to help him or work with him in getting his message out.

      I believe he is in contact with Dadrian and other German speaking Armenian scholars. But you are right, more needs to be done. I think one of the problems occurs when well-meaning Turks who generally support our cause come into contact with those elements of our people who tend to be just as facist as the most denialist pan-turkist, which we have to admit, exist in abudance. It does weaken the position of good men such as Mr. Ertem.
      General Antranik (1865-1927): “I am not a nationalist. I recognize only one nation, the nation of the oppressed.”

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