One of the darkest pages in world history is the genocide of Armenians by the neo-Turks during the last years of the Ottoman Empire, says Presidential Commissioner Fotis Fotiou.
According to A statement from the presidency on April 24 stated that “Armenian Genocide Remembrance Day has been established so that humanity can never forget one of the most heinous crimes that has led to the systematic and mass extermination of a people.”
One hundred and seven years have passed since then and, as every April 24, we honor the memory of the innocent victims and express our respect and support to the friendly people of Armenia who resisted with vigor, dignity and confidence in the enormous consequences of its crime. genocide against him “notes.
As he says, the victims of the Turkish savagery are estimated at one and a half million, while thousands of other Armenians were tortured and took the path of refuge in poverty. “A few years later followed the genocide of the Greeks of Pontus and Asia Minor, which also remains an unpunished crime and we can never forget,” he says. He speaks of persistent and premeditated crimes that Turkey continues to deny and which have led to attitudes and behaviors on its part that “blatantly violate human existence and due respect for every concept of law”.
Greeks and Armenians lived together moments of martyrdom, and Cyprus is one of the first countries in the world to recognize and condemn the Armenian genocide, supporting every effort to restore and recognize the one and only historical truth, continues the Presiding Commissioner.
Paying tribute to the memory of the victims of the genocide, Mr. Fotiou underlines the feelings of friendship and brotherhood in the coexistence of the two peoples for the future.
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Source: KYPE
