The student government at the University of California, Davis (UC Davis), USA, passed “A Resolution to Divest from the Republic of Turkey to End the Perpetuation of the Armenian Genocide.”

The resolution ultimately called for UC Davis and the University of California to divest $72.6 million dollars worth of University of California bonds and investments in Turkey for its crimes in, and continued denial of the Armenian Genocide.

Armenian News-NEWS.am has learned the aforesaid from the press service of the Armenian Youth Federation (AYF) Western United States. 

“Feelings of anger and disappointment arose within me when I found out the University of California invests over $70 million dollars in the Turkish government. As it seems, UC campuses are implicitly involved in Turkey’s systematic denial campaign of the Armenian Genocide” said UC Davis student Vahe Sargsyan during the hearings on the aforementioned resolution. “I am glad to see the UC Davis student government, along with other UC student governments, taking on the initiative to divest from a systematic genocide denying country such as Turkey.”

The student governments of the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA), UC Berkeley, and UC Irvine unanimously passed similar resolutions during January, February, and May of this year.