YOUNG PEOPLE VOICE RESENTMENT
By Tamar Minasian
AZG Armenian Daily
29/06/2006
"The ruffianly acts in Istanbul during the visit of Armenian Catholicos
Karekin II are a resentful savagery that need to be condemned. Overt
calls for intolerance, vandalism and violence bring to naught the
legends about "civilized and europized" Turkey," reads a statement made
by 30 youth organization and presented yesterday by "Nikol Aghbalian"
youth wing of Armenian Revolutionary Federation.
Head of "Nikol Aghbalian", Ishghan Saghatelian, thinks that this
savagery is the continuation of 1915, Sumgait, Ramil Safarov and
Jugha. If one of those were halted in time such things would not
happen today. The initiators informed that they had applied to the
Mother See for an audience with His Holiness upon his return to find
out details. Karen Avagian, head of the Armenian Republican Party’s
youth wing, says that these actions show that Turkey is not ready
for relations with us.
Authors of the statement expect and demand that the world community,
particularly the EU, response and condemn "the march aimed at
terrorizing the Armenian Church and trampling the rights and religious
freedom of Christian citizens of Turkey."