In a letter to the editor published in Turkish daily Taraf today, a group of readers criticized Turkish state policy to refute the fact of the Armenian Genocide and Turkish PM Recept Tayyip Erdogan’s threats last week to deport Armenians living illegally in Turkey .
The letter signed by Taraf readers C. Murat Özgünay, Ömer Faruk, Hürriyet Karadeniz, Yeter Özdemir Şahin, Adnan Genç, Erdal Karayazgan, Serap Kaya, Nesrin Aslan, Ayla Şeşan, Ali Şenalp, Erdal Karayazgan, Muhteşem Özdamar, Necmi Demirci, and Nedim Arul reads:
“We cannot remain indifferent to the 1915 ‘Medz Yeghern’ [Great Calamity] under the Ottoman Empire; our conscience doesn’t allow its denial. We dismiss that injustice, [we] sympathize with our Armenian brothers. We condemn Prime Minister Erdogan’s statement on ‘keeping needy Armenians hostage,’ deeming it to be heartless.”
A number of Turkish media have republished the Taraf letter, labelling it “shocking.”
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