“April is the cruelest month for the people of Armenia, who every year at this season suffer a continuing tragedy and a humiliation,” reads the article by Christopher Hitchens on Calgary Herald website. The author recalls that Turkish authorities deny that mass killings of Armenians occurred in Ottoman Empire in the beginning of last century. Hitchens says that first time the word “genocide” was used in 1943, though he prefers the wording “race extermination,” that was applied by the former U.S. Ambassador to Turkey Henry Morgenthau.

Speaking about present Turkey’s policy and deportation threats voiced by Turkish Premier Erdogan, the author notes that illegal Turkish workers can be found throughout EU. “How would the world respond if a European prime minister called for the mass deportation of Turks? Yet, Erdogan’s xenophobic demagoguery attracted no condemnation from Washington or Brussels,” he deems.

“It is not just a disaster for Turkey that its prime minister suffers from morbid personality disorders. The dead of Armenia will never cease to cry out. Nor, on their behalf, should we cease to do so. Let Turkey's unstable leader foam when other parliaments and congresses discuss Armenia and seek the truth about it. The grotesque fact remains that the Turkish parliament is forbidden by its own law to do so. While this remains the case, we shall do it for them, and without any apology, until they produce the one that is forthcoming from them,” the article reads.