11 Thousand Turks in Germany Stand for Armenian Genocide Recognition

PanARMENIAN.Net - In 2004 chairman of the Germany-based organization "Union Against Genocide", Turkish journalist Ali Ektem collected 11 thousand signatures of German Turks standing for the Armenian Genocide recognition. The signatures were submitted to the parliaments of Germany and other European states. According to Ali Ektem, the main goal of his organization is the recognition and condemnation of the Armenian Genocide by Turkey and the Turkish society. He said the signatures were first of all submitted to the Turkish parliament but no response has come so far.



"Hostility cannot last eternally. Turkey should resign itself to the fact and acknowledge the Armenian Genocide. I am convinced that the peoples residing in Turkey will also condemn and acknowledge the reality," Ali Ektem underscored. In his opinion, international organizations have much to do in this view. "They should act as mediators in the dialogue between the Turkish and Armenian nations to liquidate the consequences of the Genocide," Ektem considers.