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  • Rome: Armenians In Rome Call On Media To Scrap 'Young Turks' Term

    ARMENIANS IN ROME CALL ON MEDIA TO SCRAP 'YOUNG TURKS' TERM

    ANSA Med, Italy
    April 24, 2013 Wednesday 5:56 PM CET

    On 98th anniversary of 1915 Turkish genocide of 1.5mln Armenians

    (ANSAmed) - ROME, APRIL 24 - Today is the 98th anniversary of the
    Armenian genocide at the hands of the Ottoman government, and the
    local Armenian community has called on Italian media to scrap the term
    "young Turks" when describing a Democratic Party faction.

    "For us those words recall the horror of the Great Crime (the Medz
    Yeghern, in Armenian) and of the regime of terror that led to
    genocide", Armenian community leaders said in a note Wednesday.

    The starting date of the extermination of 1.5 million Armenians is
    conventionally held to be the night of April 24, 1915, when police
    instigated by the so-called Young Turks in the Ottoman government
    arrested hundreds of Armenian journalists, writers, lawyers, priests
    and other members of the intelligentsia.

    Unlike Germany following World War II, Turkey has yet to acknowledge
    its government once followed a policy of extermination of its Armenian
    minority.

    In its 2013 slogan, the Armenian community in Rome exhorted everyone
    to "stop and think about what happened in 1915. About this past that
    won't pass, and that needs to be remembered. Stop and think. Don't
    become an accomplice of negationism".

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