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ARMENIAN KURDS TO VOTE FOR SERZH SARKISIAN
ARMENPRESS
Dec 12 2007
YEREVAN, DECEMBER 12, ARMENPRESS: Prominent members of Armenian
Kurdish community have called today on fellows to vote for prime
minister Serzh Sarkisian when they will go to the polls on February
19 to elect a president.
"We, the Kurds, as full citizens of Armenia, shall cast out ballots in
favor of Serzh Sarkisian, who was spearheading for years virtually all
force agencies of the country and is very well aware of its domestic
and external challenges. The problems of national minorities have
always been in his limelight,' Knyaz Hasanov, chairman of the Armenian
Kurdish National Council, told at a news conference today.
Hasanov and another senior member of the Council said they hope that
the February 19 election will be fair and transparent.
Robert Kotikian from the Aragatsotn province, which has the largest
Kurdish population in Armenia, said his fellows have decided to vote
for Sarkisian because he shows respect to Kurds and Kurds respect him.
Earlier representatives of the Yezidi and Jewish communities also
said their fellows would vote for Serzh Sarkisian.
Kurds are the largest ethnic minority in Armenia.
In Soviet times there was an 80,000-strong Kurdish community in
Armenia, but it began to dwindle as the Soviet Union began to
collapse. Now there are over 40,000 Kurds in Armenia.
The Kurdish people here are represented by two ethnic groups: the
Muslim Kurds and the Yezidis, who has preserved their old religion. Up
to the end of the 1980s the Yezidis were identified with the Kurds,
but then Yezidis began to identify themselves as a different people.
ARMENPRESS
Dec 12 2007
YEREVAN, DECEMBER 12, ARMENPRESS: Prominent members of Armenian
Kurdish community have called today on fellows to vote for prime
minister Serzh Sarkisian when they will go to the polls on February
19 to elect a president.
"We, the Kurds, as full citizens of Armenia, shall cast out ballots in
favor of Serzh Sarkisian, who was spearheading for years virtually all
force agencies of the country and is very well aware of its domestic
and external challenges. The problems of national minorities have
always been in his limelight,' Knyaz Hasanov, chairman of the Armenian
Kurdish National Council, told at a news conference today.
Hasanov and another senior member of the Council said they hope that
the February 19 election will be fair and transparent.
Robert Kotikian from the Aragatsotn province, which has the largest
Kurdish population in Armenia, said his fellows have decided to vote
for Sarkisian because he shows respect to Kurds and Kurds respect him.
Earlier representatives of the Yezidi and Jewish communities also
said their fellows would vote for Serzh Sarkisian.
Kurds are the largest ethnic minority in Armenia.
In Soviet times there was an 80,000-strong Kurdish community in
Armenia, but it began to dwindle as the Soviet Union began to
collapse. Now there are over 40,000 Kurds in Armenia.
The Kurdish people here are represented by two ethnic groups: the
Muslim Kurds and the Yezidis, who has preserved their old religion. Up
to the end of the 1980s the Yezidis were identified with the Kurds,
but then Yezidis began to identify themselves as a different people.