Turkish authorities keep Armenians under cultural and political pressure, told Mihran Perkich Gültekin, the president of the Union of Dersim, to Armenian News-NEWS.am.

"The genocide pain lives in Tunceli Armenians as much as it lives in every Armenian, and we should take every effort to make Turkey acknowledge the Armenian Genocide. We should not leave the work of genocide acknowledgement as a duty for our children .... Today the Turkish authorities subject us to cultural and political pressures. In Dersim the Turks call us Armenians, which is considered as an insult on their part. It is a psychological pressure , " said Gultekin .

Gültekin considers the four day war Azerbaijan in April as a continuation of the genocide: the killings of Artsakhi civilians , tortures of soldiers. "These atrocities have demonstrated that it is a continuation of the genocide and Azerbaijan cooperates with Turkey in this regard. It is Turkey’s signature,” he said.