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Kurdish CHAK welcomes the recognition of
genocide against the Armenian people
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October 14, 2007
The Center of Halabja against Anfalization and
Genocide of the Kurds (CHAK) welcomes the decision
by the United States Congressional House Foreign
Affairs Committee to recognize the mass killings of
approximately 1.5 million innocent Armenians in 1915
at the hands of the young Turks. This
decision is an important step toward
the wider recognition of the brutality that took
place at that time. CHAK looks forward to the day
when the US Senate follows this historically
important decision.
Recognition of the genocide committed against the
Armenian people is important, as is the recognition
of other crimes committed against the Greeks, the
Assyrians, and the Kurds before and after the mass
killings of the Armenians.
This recognition will help us all to have a broader
understanding of past crimes and present us with the
possibility of a peaceful and brighter future.
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Turks seem to rejoice watching a massacred Armenian
Christian family. Even babies were tortured and
massacred.
Photo from
bibleprobe.com,
to see the photos and real story visit the website
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CHAK looks forward to working for the recognition of
the Darsim genocide, in which tens of thousands of
Kurdish men, women, and children were killed en mass
by poisoning, burning, mass shootings, and other
extreme methods in 1937-1938.
This was a brutal act of genocide long forgotten by
the international community.
The Center of Halabja against Anfalization and
Genocide of the Kurds ”CHAK”
The center of Halabja
Nawendi Helebce - www.chak.be
* First world war
massacres | Related
issue:
Armenian Genocide by Turkish Muslims against
Christians
Turkey faces international pressure to recognise
that more than 1 million Armenians were massacred
during a 1915 campaign of ethnic cleansing by
Ottoman Turks. Turkish officials claim that most
deaths were caused by hunger and disease.
More about Armenian Genocide by Turks at
Genocide1915.info - The Armenian Genocide
Recognition Struggle!
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Kurds are not recognized as an official minority in
Turkey and are denied rights granted to other
minority groups. Under EU pressure, Turkey recently
granted Kurds limited rights for broadcasts and
education in the Kurdish language, but critics say
the measures do not go far enough.
The use of the term "Kurdistan" is vigorously
rejected due to its alleged political implications
by the Republic of Turkey, which does not recognize
the existence of a "Turkish Kurdistan" Southeast
Turkey.
Others estimate over 40 million Kurds live in
Big Kurdistan (Iraq, Turkey, Syria, Iran, Armenia),
which covers an area as big as France, about half of
all Kurds which estimate to 20 million live in
Turkey.
Turkey is home to over 25 million ethnic Kurds, some
of whom openly sympathise with the Kurdish PKK for a
Kurdish homeland in the country's mainly Kurdish
southeast of Turkey.
Before August 2002, the Turkish government placed
severe restrictions on the use of Kurdish language,
prohibiting the language in education and broadcast
media.
The Kurdish alphabet is still not recognized
in Turkey, and use of the Kurdish letters X, W, Q
which do not exist in the Turkish
alphabet has led to judicial persecution in 2000 and
2003
The Kurdish flag flown officially in Iraqi Kurdistan
but unofficially flown by Kurds in Armenia. The flag
is banned in Iran, Syria, and Turkey where flying it
is a criminal offence"
Southeastern Turkey:
North Kurdistan ( Kurdistan-Turkey)
wikipedia
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