It isn’t meant to have an actual relationship of friendship and good neighborliness with Turkey, with out recognizing the genocide towards Pontic Hellenism by fashionable Turkey, identified the president of SYRIZA-Progressive Alliance, Stefanos Kasselakisin his assertion after laying a wreath on the Memorial for the Victims of the Genocide, in Agia Sophia Sq..
“The popularity of the Genocide on the expense of Pontic Hellenism by your complete worldwide neighborhood and particularly by our neighboring nation has come too late.
In my view, it isn’t meant to have an actual, substantial, deep relationship of friendship and good neighborliness, with out recognizing this crime from fashionable Turkey”, stated Mr. Kasselakis.
He pledged to boost the difficulty in all his worldwide contacts and famous: “Simply as I’ve dedicated to German reparations, I pledge that in my worldwide presence, as chief of the official opposition and with the belief of the Greek folks as future prime minister, this the difficulty of the popularity of the Genocide shall be a problem that I’ll spotlight, I’ll declare for all Greeks till the top. As a result of it is a Greek difficulty, it isn’t simply a problem for the Greeks of Pontus”.
He then raised the difficulty of the safety of Christian monuments in Turkey, saying: “We should all respect Christian monuments, and particularly within the neighboring nation, and they need to additionally respect them.”
He expressed his emotion about immediately’s Nationwide Remembrance Day and emphasised: “I’m deeply moved about immediately. On the Left, the injustice touches us very deeply. This Genocide, which happened earlier than, throughout and after the First World Battle, can’t be forgotten.
We have now a accountability as a State to maintain the reminiscence alive for the a whole lot of hundreds of Pontus Greeks who have been murdered, for the households who have been displaced. And the primary factor is how we are going to grow to be a greater nation. How can we grow to be a rustic that brings out our greatest within the reminiscence of those folks.
And after I noticed little Arsenis Orphanidis immediately, who sang with the Pontic lyre, I need to inform you that this baby has the proper and deserves to develop up and excel in a contemporary Greece and to have with him a authorities that can hold the reminiscence of ancestors alive. Immortals”.
The president of SYRIZA-PS accepted the proposal to go to the fifteenth of August, the holy Monastery of Panagia Sumela on the slopes of Vermio.
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