To this day, Turkey refuses to recognize the persecution of the Armenians as genocide. In front of the Turkish consulate general in Zurich, a left alliance has called for the genocide to be dealt with, which began with the mass arrests of the Armenian elite on April 24, 2015 in Constantinople.
In the course of the genocide, under the responsibility of the Young Turkish government, at least 1.5 million Armenians, around half a million Syrians (Chaldeans, Arameans, Assyrians), several hundred thousand Pontic Greeks and members of other non-Muslim population groups such as the Ezidis and Nestorians were murdered in the course of the genocide . The Armenians mark this dark chapter in their past Agher, the disaster, the Syriac Seyfo or Sayfo, Sword.
At the rally on Friday in Zurich, the continuity of the murderous policy from the Ottoman Empire to the present day was pointed out. A representative of the HBDH (United Revolutionary Movement of the Peoples) declared: “The Turkish state continues its racist and monistic policy of massacres today. The 1915 attacks aimed at genocide against the Armenian people are continued today by AKP / MHP fascism against the peoples of Turkey and Kurdistan. The Turkish state denies and disregards the massacres of the ancient peoples of the region. He must finally confront it and be accountable for it. “
A representative of the Union of Syriacs in Europe (ESU) referred in a speech to the sentencing of the Syrian Orthodox priest Sefer “Aho” Bileçen to over two years in prison in Turkey and described the procedure as a continuation of the Seyfo.
Further speeches called for a common fight against fascism.
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