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    ARAB PRESS REMINDS TURKEY OF ARMENIAN GENOCIDE

    Tert.am
    12:45 ~U 01.02.10

    The persecution and oppression of Kurds in Turkey basically renders
    Turkish PM Recep Tayyip Erdogan's calls for justice and compassion
    in Gaza worthless, reports the Arab-language London-based publication
    Al Hayat.

    "Justice and rights cannot be separated from each other. Those who,
    in one place, speak of rights and justice, while in another case,
    disregard those values, are using double standards. It's no secret
    that Turkey's ruling Justice and Development Party works this way.

    Turkey has not acknowledged the fact it has committed ethnic cleansing
    of millions of Armenians and Assyrians and has displaced these people.

    "On the contrary, all those who dare to speak about it are being
    prosecuted in Turkey. So far, Turkey has not acknowledged those
    massacres and the justice mentioned by Erdogan must also include
    recognition of the Genocide committed by the Turkish state," the
    paper said.

    Al Hayat also reports that the campaign against famous Turkish writer
    and Nobel Peace Prize Laureate Orhan Pamuk was launched because he
    started speaking about the massacres of Armenians and Kurds that took
    place in Turkey.

    "For 20 years, the Turkish army killed 30,000 people, thousands of
    Kurdish villages were vacated and burned. More than 4 million Kurds
    left their homes, ran away and settled in cities.

    "Kurdish regions were blockaded which was more horrible than the
    blockade of the Gaza Strip by Israel. But neither Erdogan nor his
    party members uttered a single word about that; they remembered neither
    the slaughtered children nor the crying women," Al Hayat concluded.
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