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Selahattin Demirtas, Chairman of Turkey’s pro-Kurdish “Peace and Democracy Party” (BDP), stated that April 24 is an occasion for Turkey to confront all the tragedies that have occurred in the country.   

Demirtas noted that the Young Turks’ subjecting the Armenians to genocide had begun on April 24, 1915 in Istanbul, and with the exile of 246 Armenian intellectuals, reported Agos Armenian weekly of Istanbul.

“A plan was carried out to wipe out all non-Turk and non-Muslim ethnic groups from these lands, and the inimical attitude towards the Armenians still continues [in Turkey].

“In these lands, where we work to build brotherhood, we witness how they force to accept the word ‘Armenian’ as a profanity.  

“Turkey must confront [its] history,” the Kurdish leader said stressing that he shares the Armenians’ pain.

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