AZG Armenian Daily #049, 18/03/2006
Rally
‘TALAT PASHA RALLY’ GATHERS 15 CHAUVINISTIC TURKS
Despite the ban of the Berlin Police against “Talat Pasha rally,”
Turkish nationalists held a gathering in the German capital. Turks
were forced to change the rally site as the Armenian community of
Berlin had already occupied the site. Turkish Zaman newspaper wrote on
March 16 that the rally gathered 15 members of the Turkish Workers’
Party and Kemalist unions. The rally failed as a result of squabble
between TWP and Kemalists.
Moreover, the Armenians of Berlin together with the Assyrian community
organized their own rally carrying posters “No Hailing of Genocidal
Turkey in Germany”, “Armenians and Assyrians Jointly Condemn Turkey
for the Genocide.” The Turkish rally participants, Zaman writes,
observed a minute’s silence in memory of Talat.
The rally was initially planned to take place on March 18, and the
organizers threatened to enroll 5 million strong Turkish community
of Europe. Its staging 3 days earlier allows us to assume that the
Turks attempted to evade the Berlin Police’s decision.
By Hakob Chakrian