CHP ACTS FOR ARMENIAN MIGRANTS’ LIFE STANDARDS

Hurriyet, Turkey
March 12 2013

ANKARA – Anatolia News Agency

The Republican People’s Party (CHP) yesterday tabled a motion demanding
a parliamentary investigation to determine and solve the problems of
Armenian migrants living in Turkey.

In the justification of the motion, which was submitted to the
Parliamentary Speaker’s Office with the signatures of CHP Istanbul
deputy Sezgin Tanrıkulu and his colleagues, it was indicated that
the migrants living in Turkey lived in harsh conditions that could
result in death.

The justification also underlined the suicide case of Narine
Mıkırtciyan, an Armenian woman who moved to Istanbul for economic
reasons. “We think there are many tragedies resembling the case of
Narine Mıkırtciyan,” it read. The justification also referred to
Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan’s remarks in 2010 that, “in Turkey,
there are about 100,000 Armenians who are not Turkish citizens.” “The
government, which does not abstain from using Armenian migrants as
a trump card, has to demonstrate a similar skill for reforming their
living standards,” the motion read.

March/12/2013