{"id":15112,"date":"2014-04-24T17:37:35","date_gmt":"2014-04-24T17:37:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.aaeurop.com\/?p=15112"},"modified":"2014-04-24T17:37:35","modified_gmt":"2014-04-24T17:37:35","slug":"on-the-threshold-of-genocide-centennial-turks-make-calls-for-urgent-recognition-efforts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.aaeurop.com\/?p=15112","title":{"rendered":"On the threshold of Genocide centennial: Turks make calls for urgent recognition efforts"},"content":{"rendered":"

Several Turkey-based organizations and individuals have issued a joint statement, calling for urgent efforts to recognize the Armenian Genocide. <\/strong><\/p>\n

They have expressed a desire to confront history, saying that they share the grief of the Armenians who survived the tragedy.
\n\u0569\u00a7\u0549\u0082-\u056a\u0093Genocide is not just the massacres, the rivers bringing dead bodies and streets full of dismembered corpses. Genocide is not limited to those preferring to die or seeking salvation in death; it is not just the unforgivable pain of those who survived attacks, hunger, diseases and rapes. Genocide is also plunder, looting and ravage.
\n\u0569\u00a7\u0549\u0082-\u056a\u0093It is already 99 years that Genocide is being denied. The government and the Turkish capital were built on the looting committed during Genocide.<\/p>\n

\u0569\u00a7\u0549\u0082-\u056a\u0093Denial does not simply mean, \u0569\u00a7\u0549\u0082-\u056d\u009cI haven\u0569\u00a7\u0549\u0082-\u0549\u0084\u00a7t done it\u0569\u00a7\u0549\u0082-\u0549\u0084\u00a7; it implies saying, \u0569\u00a7\u0549\u0082-\u056d\u009cwe did it because we deserved it\u0569\u00a7\u0549\u0082-\u0549\u0084\u00a7. The historians and the \u0569\u00a7\u0549\u0082-\u056d\u009crespectable writers and intellectuals\u0569\u00a7\u0549\u0082-\u0549\u0084\u00a7 preaching denial on television try to substantiate and justify what happened.
\n\u0569\u00a7\u0549\u0082-\u056a\u0093Hrant Dink [the assassinated editor of Agos<\/i>] searched for and found the consequences of the genocide committed against the Armenians. A probe was conducted into the Armenian orphans\u0569\u00a7\u0549\u0082-\u0549\u0084\u00a7 fate and the Armenians\u0569\u00a7\u0549\u0082-\u0549\u0084\u00a7 fortune, and he was killed for grasping the roots of that truth.
\n\u0569\u00a7\u0549\u0082-\u056a\u0093Soldier Sevak Shahin Balikci was killed of a shooting on the head on an April 24 [Genocide commemoration] day. That was labeled as an unfortunate accident and went unpunished.<\/p>\n

\u0569\u00a7\u0549\u0082-\u056a\u0093Genocide continues also today.
\n\u0569\u00a7\u0549\u0082-\u056a\u0093That denial and the pursuit of genocide, the failure to consider the Armenians\u0569\u00a7\u0549\u0082-\u0549\u0084\u00a7 property theirs continues today.<\/p>\n

\u0569\u00a7\u0549\u0082-\u056a\u0093We want the survivors of Genocide, their children and grandchildren to be given a chance to return to the historical land – which has always been bright in their memories – and become citizens of Turkey. We want the nations of Anatolia and Mesopotamia to enjoy equality, fraternity and freedom.
\n\u0569\u00a7\u0549\u0082-\u056a\u0093It is April 24, 2014. One year is left until the Armenian Genocide centennnial. Every Anatolian and Messopotiamian resident struggling for a peaceful, unbiased, equal and free life shoulders a historical responsibility today.
\n\u0569\u00a7\u0549\u0082-\u056a\u0093We want to confront the history, share first of all the grief of the Armenian nation and the genocide victims, and take a step to ensure the equality of nations\u0569\u00a7\u0549\u0082-\u0549\u0084\u00a7 freedom. We know a failure to confront the Armenian Genocide and the massacres against the Assyrians, Yezidis, Pontic Greeks and Alevis will make neither Turkey democratic nor the society more free,\u0569\u00a7\u0549\u0082-\u0539\u009d reads the statement.
\nThe authors further urge for strong efforts to end the denial attempts, apologize to the nations that survived the heinous crime, grant them citizenship and return their property.
\nThey also call for removing the names of genocide perpetrators from public places.<\/p>\n

\u0569\u00a7\u0549\u0082-\u056a\u0093Genocide must be recognized as a crime committed against the background of hatred,\u0569\u00a7\u0549\u0082-\u0539\u009d they say<\/p>\n

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