Kurdish MP calls mass killings of 1915 genocide
Kurdish MP Altan Tan, who represents Kurdish “Peace and Democracy” Party in Turkish Parliament, delivered a speech in an international conference, held in the University of Artuklu, making remarks on the Armenian Genocide 1915.
According to the Turkish “Radikal” daily, the MP has stated that the mass killings of Armenians in 1915 were genocide.
“The government passed a decision of displacement. Some part of the Armenians died because of diseases, some part died from severe weather conditions, some part was killed by the vandal groups. It doesn’t matter what happened to those people, because the truth is one – Armenian people were annihilated,” Kurdish MP said after the conference.
Encouraging his people to apologize for those victims, Tan said: “Call it genocide, massacre or disaster, one thing is obvious – once Turkish population was 13 million and 1.2 million were Armenians, now the population is 75 million and only 40 thousand Armenians live here.”