PUBLISHER FROM DIARBEKIR SPEAKS ABOUT ARMENIANS AND ASSYRIANS DISPLACED IN 1915
Noyan Tapan
Armenians Today
Aug 10 2007
ISTANBUL, AUGUST 10, NOYAN TAPAN – ARMENIANS TODAY. The Turkish
"Birgun" daily newpaper has published an interview with Ahmed Chakmak,
the editor of the "Yearatan" literary newspaper of Diarbekir. The
Daily "Marmara" attracts attention on that part of the interview,
where Chakmak touches upon the displacement of Armenians and Assyrians
from Diarbekir.
"This city watched with indifference how the homes of our Armenian
and Assyrian neighbours were destroyed for this or that reason,
those neighbours, with whom we had lived for hundreds of years, it
saw how they disappeared on the displacement ways and how those,
who survived, lived in homesickness. And the most tragic thing
is that most of these poor people handed their valuable things to
their reliable friends with the hope that they would return sooner
or later. The grandchildren of those neighbours are still waiting
for handing those things to the representatives of their owners."