VARDAN KHACHATRYAN. “THE TURKS NEED TO ADDRESS THEIR UNVEILED PAST.”
March 12 2015
On March 11, the Center for the Prevention of Genocide, the “Armenia”
people’s initiative and the Supreme Council Parliamentary club
organized a discussion at the Tekeyan Cultural Center entitled “The
new aspirations of modern politics for destruction of the peoples in
the Middle East and its relation with the genocides in Turkey”. Head
of the Center for the Prevention of Genocide Onik Mnacakanyan said
that the session is primarily dedicated to the genocide of Assyrians,
Greeks and also Yezidis. The Yezidi community representative did not
attend the event, as the organizers say, due to reasonable excuses.
Former NA MP, expert in religious studies and theologian Vardan
Khachatryan said that during the previous discussion, the resolution
adopted by the Center for the Prevention of Genocide was sent to
abroad. In his words, it contained an emphasis that we are dealing with
a public genocidal policy. “There was a state plan and it was presented
that the plan for destruction of Armenian supporting Christians and
Russians was driven by the interests of Turkey.”
According to speaker, in the result of re-emphasis of the resolution,
an evidence was brought that genocide was not carried out against
Armenians only, now, in the same region, we are dealing with genocides,
because formerly, the genocide committed by Turkey was not responded
worthily. “Differentiation of the roots and causes of the genocide is
the top priority of humanity… The grounds of the genocide should not
be sought in today’s Islamic extremists. And if they did not address
the unveiled past, did not accept their face and the homophobia
policy cannot remain unpunished,” says Vardan Khachatryan, adding
that the series of TV bridges are upcoming. President of Patrida
NGO of Greeks of Armenia Eduard Polatov disagrees with the presented
number of the martyrs resulted by the genocide of Armenians and the
Greeks. He believes that more Armenians and Greeks have been killed
in the result of Turkey’s policy and the violence. “The Turks do
not kill Christian Armenians, they can also kill Muslim Armenians,
in other words, the gene, what they did is a genocide… We see the
effects of all of these in Lebanon and Syria, and hear Erdogan’s
cynical phrases regarding the fact when he was asked about being an
Armenian or a Greek … We do not have hatred towards the Turkish
people, but it’s time to call things by their names…”
Gohar HAKOBYAN
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