The Democratic Society Congress (DTK), which is the largest Kurdish platform in Turkey, has issued a statement on the 101st anniversary of the Armenian Genocide.

The statement notes that, as a result of the “one country, one nation, one language” policy by the Committee of Union and Progress (Young Turks), great genocide and assimilation had occurred against the peoples of Anatolia and Mesopotamia, reported Agos Armenian bilingual weekly of Istanbul.

“The most terrible [one] in what occurred was the 1915 Armenian Genocide,” the DTK statement also reads. “We call on the Turkish authorities to face history and renounce genocidal mindset.”