We should exclude birth of new Talaats, new Kemals and new Hitlers - Sharmazanov

On May 18 in Athens Deputy Speaker of Armenian National Assembly Eduard Sharmazanov participated in the international conference, titled “Triad of Genocides: Armenians, Greeks, and Assyrians.” He delivered a speech, particularly noting:

“On March 24 the National Assembly of Armenia unanimously adopted a statement condemning the genocide of the Greeks and Assyrians in the Ottoman Turkey. With this statement we reaffirmed our position of struggle for the recognition and condemnation of the genocide phenomenon.”

“Unfortunately, instead of recognizing the genocides and shaking off the heavy burden, the Turkish authorities go to the way of denial, becoming accomplice in the crime committed a century ago, occupy part of Cyprus, illegally blockade Armenia, keep Article 301, organize Gallipolis, trying to mislead the international community, swagger the Pope and the leaders of the countries which recognize and condemn the genocide.

“We, the representatives of three peoples, should unite our potential for the protection of human rights, restoration of historical justice and against the Turkish denialism.

“It is not sufficient any more to struggle only for the recognition and condemnation of the genocide of the Christian peoples in the Ottoman Turkey: we should reach the criminalization of the Turkish denialism. Keeping silence about genocides can generate new genocides, and the Holocaust, the genocides of Cambodia, Rwanda and Darfur are the evidence of it.

“At all platforms we should be united to voice about the necessity of condemnation of genocide phenomenon, we should struggle against the denial policy of Turkey for excluding the birth of new Envers, new Talaats, new Kemals and eventually new Hitlers.”