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    TURKISH INTELLECTUALS CALL ON TURKISH SOCIETY TO COMMEMORATE VICTIMS OF THE ARMENIAN GENOCIDE

    armradio.am
    20.04.2010 16:39

    In a written address called "This is Our Pain. This is a Mourning
    for All of Us" a group of Turkish intellectuals calls on Turkish
    soceity to rally at 7pm on April 24 on the Taksim square in Istanbul
    to commemorate the victims of the Armenian Genocide in 1915. the
    address runs as follows:

    "In 1915, when we had a population of only 13 million people, there
    were 1,5 to 2 million Armenians living on this land. In Thrace,
    in the Aegean, in Adana, in Malatya, in Van, in Kars...In Samatya,
    in Å~^iÅ~_li, in the Islands, in Galata...

    They were the grocer in our neighborhood, our tailor, our goldsmith,
    our carpenter, our shoemaker, our farmhand, our millwright, our
    classmate, our teacher, our officer, our private, our deputy, our
    historian, our composer...Our friend. Our next-door neighbours and
    our companion in bad times. In Thrace, in the Aegean, in Adana, in
    Malatya, in Van, in Kars...In Samatya, in Å~^iÅ~_li, Ä°n the Islands,
    in Galata...

    On April 24th, 1915 they were "rounded up". We lost them. They are
    not here anymore. A great majority of them do not exist anymore. Nor
    do their graveyards. There EXISTS the overwhelming "Great Pain" that
    was laid upon the qualms of our conscience by the "Great Catastrophe".

    It's getting deeper and deeper for the last 95 years.

    We call upon all peoples of Turkey who share this heartfelt pain
    to commemorate and pay tribute to the victims of 1915 in black,
    in silence, with candles and flowers..

    For this is OUR pain. This is a mourning for ALL OF US."
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