Kurd politician apologizes for participation of Kurdish people in Armenian Genocide

YEREVAN, APRIL 29, ARMENPRESS.The Member of the European Democratic and Peace Majlis, as well as Kurdish liberation movement Rozhden Yalderem did not see sincerity in the statement of the Prime Minister of Turkey Recep Tayyip Erdogan made on April 23. In the Prime Minister’s speech Rozhden Yalderem looked for the word “genocide” but did not find it. This is what made the Kurd politician angry. “We need to call things by their names and give an answer for the crime carried out a century ago. I did not see a big change in Erdogan’s statement. If he does not utter and say the word “genocide” that they fulfilled, that is not a change for us. In his statement Erdogan said that the Armenians martyred during the First World War, it is not a big change in the position of Turkey,” Yalderem said as reported by Armenpress. He added that the ideology is led by the nationalists in Turkey and today’s state policy of Turkey is built on that ideology.

Yalderem notes that Europe's Democratic and Peace Majlis operates on the public basis. 57 organizations are in the list of the structure, Majlis has more than one million members.

The fact of the Armenian Genocide by the Ottoman government has been documented, recognized, and affirmed in the form of media and eyewitness reports, laws, resolutions, and statements by many states and international organizations. The complete catalogue of all documents categorizing the 1915 wholesale massacre of the Armenian population in Ottoman Empire as a premeditated and thoroughly executed act of genocide is extensive. Uruguay was the first country to officially recognize the Armenian Genocide in 1965. The massacres of the Armenian people were officially condemned and recognized as genocide in accordance with the international law by France, Germany, Italy, Belgium, Netherlands, Switzerland, Sweden, Russia, Poland, Lithuania, Greece, Slovakia, Cyprus, Lebanon, Uruguay, Argentina, Venezuela, Chile, Canada, Vatican and Australia.