NEWS CENTER - In the statement made on the anniversary of the Armenian Genocide, Peoples’ Democratic Congress (HDK) said, "We will continue the struggle to the denial of the genocide to be regarded as a hate crime, to expose the ideologies of the perpetrators of the genocide, and to erase all traces from our lives."

 

HDK Executive Board issued a written statement on the 106th anniversary of the April 24 Armenian Genocide.

 

'Primitive capital formation and enrichment plan'

 

The statement, it was emphasized that on the anniversary of the genocide, it would not give up to express the truth to face the massacres, and noted the crime of genocide against the Armenian people continues. In the statement mentioned: "According to the United Nations (UN) Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide dated 1948, to an action to be qualified as genocide, a certain group of people; There must be an intention to destroy all or part of it because of its nationality, race, ethnic origin or religion. The genocide perpetrated by the Ottoman Empire against the Armenian people is an attack against the right of self-determination of the Anatolian peoples. It was stated that this attack is the plan of primitive capital formation and enrichment by seizing the properties of the Armenians for the sake of their survival by the ruling elite classes clustered around the palace."

 

'There is a continuing line of cooperation with the ISIS gangs'

 

In the statement, which pointed out that the policies of denial and assimilation continue: "The policy of denial of the crime of genocide has also been the character of the republic founded on the nation-state, monist ideological and political foundations. In the ‘national culture’ built by the state, ‘Armenians’ continued to be stigmatized as ‘enemy’, ‘traitor’. The name of the Armenian people has been transmitted to the generations as a swearing. Racism, chauvinism was used as a state ideology to make the peoples of Anatolia and Mesopotamia hostile to each other. The separation of Greeks from their lands with the population exchange, the assimilation of the peoples, the Wealth Tax, the Kurdish massacres, the 6-7 September Pogrom, the Maraş, Çorum, Sivas massacres, and the killing of Hrant Dink are a continuing line until cooperation with ISIS gangs."