DIYARBAKIR MAYOR ASKS FOR ARMENIANS’ PARDON<\/p>\n
news.am
\nFeb 8 2010
\nArmenia<\/p>\n
Religious organization established in Turkish city of Mardin under
\nthe auspices of Democratic Society Party initiated “Mesopotamia: First
\nreligious congress” event. Newly appointed chairman of Kurdish Peace
\nand Democracy party Selahattin Demirtas, party members, as well as
\nYazidis, Syrians, Armenians, Muslims – Sunnis and Christians attended.<\/p>\n
According to Turktime, Diyarbakir mayor Kurd Osman Beydemir delivered
\na speech at the congress. “Once Assyrians, Armenians and Kurds lived
\nin Mesopotamia and this religious diversification symbolizes success,
\ntolerance, peace and development. However, others came and ruled
\nus for years; as a result people forcedly migrated from here. I
\nam saying this with a sore heart. There are only several Armenian
\nfamilies in Diyarbakir, whereas 120 years ago they comprised 40%
\nof the population. No apology can soothe this pain. You were through
\nso many things, you forcedly left, but believe me you lost nothing,
\nthat’s us-staying here who lost. You took with you peace and success,”
\nhe outlined.<\/p>\n
As NEWS.am reported previously, Osman Beydemir also sharply criticized
\nTurkish authorities for banning to bury Armenian singer Aram Tigran
\ndied August 8, 2009 in Diyarbakir (which was last will of the
\ndeceased). Mayor ordered to hold a service in the city’s Armenian
\ncemetery and took the soil from the grave to Brussels where the
\nsinger was buried. Armenian cemetery of Diyarbakir was also cleaned
\nand repaired at mayor’s order. The restoration of St. Kirakos church
\nin Diyarbakir is being carried out as well.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
DIYARBAKIR MAYOR ASKS FOR ARMENIANS’ PARDON news.am Feb 8 2010 Armenia Religious organization established in Turkish city of Mardin under the auspices of Democratic Society Party initiated “Mesopotamia: First religious congress” event. Newly appointed chairman of Kurdish Peace and Democracy party Selahattin Demirtas, party members, as well as Yazidis, Syrians, Armenians, Muslims – Sunnis and […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":83,"featured_media":462745,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[1571,78,120,1153,1018,2129],"class_list":["post-16939","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","tag-ahmet-davutoglu","tag-ergenekon","tag-gulen","tag-politics","tag-recep-tayyip-erdogan","tag-turkey-and-armenia"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16939","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/83"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16939"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16939\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/462745"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16939"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16939"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16939"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}