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    HILDA TCHOBOIAN: TURKISH-ARMENIAN PROTOCOLS UNANIMOUSLY REJECTED

    /PanARMENIAN.Net/
    29.09.2009 13:26 GMT+04:00

    /PanARMENIAN.Net/ The Protocols on the Establishment of Diplomatic
    Relations between the Republic of Armenia and the Republic of Turkey,
    which were initiated under Swiss mediation earlier this year, are
    vehemently opposed by the Armenians worldwide, EAJFD reported.

    The "Votch" (No) petition, which is open to "all who uphold human
    dignity", was initiated by philologist Krikor Beledian, essayist
    Janine Altounian, journalists Arpig Missakian and Arpi Totoyan,
    historian Yves Ternon of France, Professor Mihran Dabag, Director of
    the German Research Institute on Diasporas and Genocides of Bochum
    University, and American professor Roger Smith, former Chairman of
    the International Association of Genocides Scholars.

    The petition, which is online at www.votch.org, has received signatures
    from residents in nearly 30 countries and the campaign is rapidly
    growing. The petition states that "to submit such a unique experience
    as genocide to negotiations and a judgment by governmental commissions
    or sub-commissions would subordinate the truth to political maneuvers
    and power relations". The document therefore considers that "by the
    signing of these protocols, Armenia marginalizes the Diaspora, and
    enters into the strategy of the Turkish State to divide the Armenian
    people and to stigmatize and delegitimize the Diaspora for advocating
    the consciousness of the Genocide".

    The text concludes that "these protocols an effort of the Turkish
    State to impose on the economically vulnerable Republic of Armenia
    its distorted vision of history from which the Republic of Turkey
    was formed and which is consubstantial with it" and "call upon all
    those who uphold human dignity to express their rejection of these
    agreements which endanger the integrity of the Armenian people".

    "The Armenians worldwide welcome the "Votch" Petition. The Turkish
    Armenian protocols are blatant infringements on the memory of the
    Armenian Geno gnity of its victims," stated Hilda Tchoboian, the
    chairperson of the European Armenian Federation.

    "The Turkish State is attempting to make its denial policy legitimate
    by embedding it in a legally binding document that would have
    far-reaching consequences not only for the Republic of Armenia,
    but for Armenians worldwide," added Tchoboian. "It is therefore
    incumbent upon the Armenian Diaspora to make their position clear to
    the Republic of Armenia that surrendering to Turkey's intransigent
    position would establish a profound division between the Republic of
    Armenia and the Armenian Diaspora," concluded Tchoboian.
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