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Turkey Should Confess Armenian and Bulgarian Genocides
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Turkey should give official recognition of the Armenian genocide committed by the Turkish state and army in the period 1915-1918, insist 45 Bulgarian intellectuals and public figures in a declaration distributed by BTA.

In the declaration the intellectuals insist also on the recognition of the genocide of Bulgarians in 1903-1913.

According to the authors of the document, Turkey should take the responsibility and should apologize for the 5-century yoke over Bulgarians, for the committed crimes and mass murders of the Bulgarians, who lived in its territories due to the Berlin contract. It should also compensate the refugees' heirs for their suffering and the stolen property.

The declaration continues that the contemporary Turkish state, which emphasizes itself as heir of the Ottoman Empire and seeks its 700-century "cultural and historical heritage" in a number of states including Bulgaria, should consider itself morally obliged to admit the committed genocides against Bulgarians, Armenians, Assyrians and other nations.

"We call for the Bulgarian parliament to follow the example and the active measures of the international community and of influential constitutional bodies around the world, which recognized the international crime "Armenian genocide".

Among these countries are: Switzerland, Poland, Slovakia, Lebanon, Canada, Argentina, Germany, Belgium, France, Netherlands, Italy, Greece, Uruguay, Sweden, Russia, Venezuela, Cyprus, Ukraine, the Vatican, Lithuania and more than 30 US states, concludes the document.

The declaration will be submitted to the Armenian embassy in Bulgaria and to the Human Rights Committee of the European parliament.

Signatories of the document are: prof. Georgi Markov, prof. Georgi Bakalov, Lyubka Rondova, Ivan Granitski, Anton Donchev, Leda Mileva, Lilyana Stefanova, Acad. Vassil Gyuzelev, Michail Konstantinov, prof. Grisha Ostrovski, prof. Krikor Azaryan, prof. Sarkis Sarkisyan, prof. Norair Nurikyan, Angel Vagenstein, Haigashot Agassyan.

By Olga Yoncheva
www.international.ibox.bg



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