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Ensuring recognition of the Armenian Genocide will be a must if Raffi
Hovhannisyan is elected
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16:01 19.01.2013
Armenian presidential candidate Raffi Hovhannisian has revealed that
he is the descendant of Armenians who escaped the Genocide of 1915.
`My mother's family comes from Garin, and my father's family is from
Harput,' Hovhannisian recently told the Hürriyet Daily News.
`My grandmother Khengeni was saved from the genocide by a Turkish
family in Erzurum. My grandfather Kaspar was saved by a Kurdish family
in Harput,' he said.
Speaking about relations with Turkey, Hovhannisian said ensuring that
the 1915 mass killings of Armenians are recognized as `genocide' would
be a must if he is elected.
`Turkey, based on its own needs and interests, should recognize the
great genocide and national dispossession of the Armenian people, seek
full redemption and effect restitution, restore Armenian cultural
heritage, ensure a secure right of return,' he said.
Hovhannisian, meanwhile, said Turks who saved Armenians during the
mass killings would be commemorated in Yerevan on the centenary of the
event in 2015.
Hovhannisyan is elected
http://www.armradio.am/en/2013/01/19/ensuring-recognition-of-the-armenian-genocide-will-be-a-must-if-raffi-hovhannisyan-is-elected/
16:01 19.01.2013
Armenian presidential candidate Raffi Hovhannisian has revealed that
he is the descendant of Armenians who escaped the Genocide of 1915.
`My mother's family comes from Garin, and my father's family is from
Harput,' Hovhannisian recently told the Hürriyet Daily News.
`My grandmother Khengeni was saved from the genocide by a Turkish
family in Erzurum. My grandfather Kaspar was saved by a Kurdish family
in Harput,' he said.
Speaking about relations with Turkey, Hovhannisian said ensuring that
the 1915 mass killings of Armenians are recognized as `genocide' would
be a must if he is elected.
`Turkey, based on its own needs and interests, should recognize the
great genocide and national dispossession of the Armenian people, seek
full redemption and effect restitution, restore Armenian cultural
heritage, ensure a secure right of return,' he said.
Hovhannisian, meanwhile, said Turks who saved Armenians during the
mass killings would be commemorated in Yerevan on the centenary of the
event in 2015.