KİLİKYA KİLİSESİNİN ERMENİ BAŞPAPAZI BEYRUT’TA ÖTTÜ:

 “ADANA’DAKİ TOPRAKLARIMIZ İÇİN TAZMİNAT VERİLSİN!”

     -Türkiye’nin Ermenistan açılım politikasını sürdürdüğü son zamanlarda Beyrut’taki Kilikya (Adana) Ermeni kilisesi Başpapazı “ Adana’daki yaşanan 1909 iç savaşında el değiştiren Ermeni taşınmaz maları için tazminat verilmesi gerekir” konuşmasını yaptı.

     -Ermeni Diasporası, 1909 Adana İç savaşını rdan geçen yüzyıl sonra dünya kamuoyunu gündemine getirdi.

     -Erivan, İstanbul, Beyrut’ta “1909 Adana Olayları” konulu sempozyumlar yapıldı.

Yılardır Türkiye aleyhine “Soykırım propogandası” yapan, 1970 ve 80’li yılarda ASALA örgütünün kuruluş ve eylemlerine Ermeni gençlerini yönlendiren 1921 yılında Adana’dan ayrılarak Beyrut’a yerleşen Kilikya (Adana) Kilisesinin Ermeni Başpapazı Aram Sarkisyan, Diaspora Ermeni çevreleri ve Ermenistan Devleti ile yakından görüşerek “Adana’daki Ermeni taşınmaz malları için tazminat isteriz” açıklamasını yaptı.

     Başpapaz Sarkisyan’ın yaptığı konuşma metni aşağıdadır:

“10/28/2009 

On Wednesday 28 October in the evening the symposium to commemorate the 100^th anniversary of the Adana Massacres began, with the participation of community and political leaders, clergy, historians, researchers, international law experts and the descendents of the victims, who came from different parts of the world.

The symposium began with a Requiem Service in memory of the martyrs, presided over by His Holiness Aram I and celebrated by the members of the Brotherhood of the Catholicosate. Following the Service the participants were led to the Cilicia Museum for the opening of an exhibition of 60 photographs from the archives of the Catholicosate depicting scenes of the massacres of Adana.

 In his opening speech, Catholicos  Aram I said that the current symposium will bridge the past, the present and the future. He continued: “As Armenians we should set aside our differences and unite in our just claims for reparation for the Adana Tragedy. Demand for justice is not constrained by time. We must ensure that the consequences of the genocides are recognised and remedied. In Adana we lost 30.000 lives, the massacres left us with widows, orphans, destroyed churches, homes, schools, farms, mills and everything else that touched the peoples’ livelihood. Hence, today on behalf of all Armenians we demand compensation from Turkey for those losses inflicted upon our people”.

After the exhibition, the participants took part in the erection of a Khatchkar (stone-cross) in the yard of the Catholicosate in memoriam of the victims.

The symposium in Antelias will continue until the end of the week”…