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
