Kurdish Recognition of The Armenian Genocide - List of Recognizance

List of Recognizance

Type Recognize Date Declaration
NGO Kurdish Institute of Paris The Kurdish Institute of Paris has recognized the 1915 massacres as genocide. The Armenian genocide is often mentioned in monthly magazine published by the Kurdish Institute.
NGO Center of Halabja against Anfalization and Genocide of the Kurds (CHAK) Welcomed the recognition of genocide against the Armenian people. The motivation from CHAK was:

"This recognition will help us all to have a broader understanding of past crimes and present us with the possibility of a peaceful and brighter future."

In 2006, CHAK published an article about the Armenian genocide called "Armenian Genocide: Turkey To Target". and over 10 articles regarding the genocide have earlier been published.

Political Democratic Society Party 2008 30 dec, Apologized to Armenians and Assyrians for the 1915 genocide.

The party leader Ahmet Türk said: "Sensing the pain of the events in our hearts, we feel that we need to apologize. In Turkey, apology is becoming quite a fashion recently. However, ours is something very different" and that "Maybe Kurds have contributed to the loss of this (cultural) richness. We are ashamed when we look at our Armenian or Assyrian brothers".

Political Kurdistan Democratic Party In the website for KDP supporters published an article ( author: Nezîr Semmikanli ) where he writes about the Armenian genocide where he describes the genocide as a crime against the Christian people
PKK Abdullah Öcalan Wrote a personal letter to the president of Armenia, Robert Kocharian where he congratulated him to his post as president and at the same time hoped for the genocide to be recognized.

I also welcome and endorse the passage of a resolution in the Belgian Senate calling on the Turkish government in Ankara to recognise the reality of the Armenian holocaust perpetrated by the last Ottoman regime in 1915-19.. Further on in the letter: The massacres during the First World War which shocked the civilised world then became a precedent for an even more appalling and destructive demonstration of genocide of the Jewish people by the German Nazis in the Second World War. Let us recall Hitler’s response to a critic of the "final solution" of the Jewish problem: "Who complained about the Armenians?"

Kurdish Council of Armenia March 2009

The president of the Kurdish Council Armenia, Knyaz Hasanov has repeatedly spoken about the Armenian genocide. On March 10, 2009 said Hasanov to the Kurds who participated in massacres against the Armenians were separate Kurds and not the Kurdish nation.

Kongra-Gel of Caucasus was made by the Caucasus represetant Heydar Ali. In an interview with Onnik Krikorian, 13 September 2004. In this interview, Heydar said:

Armenia's position is more favorable towards the Kurds because 1.5 million Armenians were killed during the Genocide. However, to deny the Kurdish identity in Armenia is a violation of international human rights obligations but yes, you are right. It is well known that throughout history, Kurdistan and the Kurds have been divided and that this is a special policy conducted by very powerful countries in the world to weaken us. The division between Kurds and Yezidi is another manifestation of this.

Kurdish Parliament in Exile April 1997, Passed a resolution recognizing the Armenian Genocide.

In the resolution, this was said: The blueprints of and the logistics for this genocide being prepared ahead of time, they employed Hamidiye Alaylari from Kurdish tribes (Similar to the present day Village Guards system who kill our people) to commit history’s, until then unknown, Genocide. In this Genocide, millions of Armenians and Assyrian-Syrians were killed, and millions others were deported from their homes and land and scattered to the four corners of the world. Further on in the resolution: Today is the 82nd anniversary of the genocide committed against the Assyrian-Syrian and Armenian peoples. Sharing the agony caused by this process, I find the Ottoman State and their collaborators the Hamidiye Alaylari, formed by some Kurdish tribes, responsible for this crime before history and I condemn them with abhorrence. Zubeyir Aydar Chairman of the Executive Committee

Political WeKurd Shortly after the murder of the Armenian journalist Hrant Dink, the head of WeKurd published an article about the slaying and the Armenian Genocide
Newspaper Kurdish Media Kurdish Media have published over 100 articles about the Genocide, Mufid Abdulla is one of the authors to the articles and in 2008 he published an article about the "Armenian Genocide and the Kurdish involvement"
Newspaper Kurdish Globe The Kurdish Globe has several times published articles about the Armenian/Assyrian genocide, the most significant is the article "History of genocide" published in the Kurdish Globe in 2008.
Newspaper Ozgur Gundem Kurdish apologized to the Armenian people for silence and complicity in the Armenian Genocide. The Ozgur Gundem website at the same time also had a detailed publications on the genocide, hardships and sufferings of the Armenian people.
Newspaper Kurdish Herald Kurdish Herald is an independent publication, which features critical analysis of the politics, economics and culture of Kurdistan. The Kurdish Herald has it written in their policy and guidelines that they don't publish material including "Denial of the Armenian Genocide, including using attributes that lessen the significance of the event"
Newspaper Komar Komar, a Kurdish webmagazine in Sweden published an article on the memorial day of the murdered journalist Hrant Dink 2009 referred to the genocide in 1915, the same year in April Komar published an article on memorial day of the genocide by the author Musa Kurdistani
Newspaper Kurd Kurd.se have published news about the Genocide before, one of them is "Ahmet Turk apologizes to Armenians and Assyrians" where the head of the Kurdish party DTP talked about the 1915 events
NGO Kurdish Youth Club (USA) Ara Alan, Secretary General of held a speech in remembrance of the 92nd anniversary of Armenian Genocide by the Ottoman Turks. The speech was given in Georgia State Capitol building addressing Armenian Americans, Senators, Congressmen, sheriffs, Judges and representatives of Mayor of Atlanta, and Georgia State Governor.
Publisher Sara Distribution It is selling the book Bati Ermenistan (Kürt Ilishkileri) ve Jenosîd (Western Armenia (Kurdish Relations) and genocide)
Publisher Beyan.net Several times published articles about the Armenian and Assyrian genocides.
Intelligentsia Berivan Öngörur, Candidate to the EU Parliament, the Left Party, wrote an article in the Swedish-Kurdish newspaper Beyan.net February 5, 2008 on the Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdoğan protest against the Israeli President Shimon Peres. In this article, Berivan also mentions the genocide in Turkey:

The genocide of Armenians between 1915 and 1923 is a tragedy which Turkey still refuses to recognize. In this genocide was carried out even murders of Greeks, Assyrians, Syrians and Chaldeans. But Turkey's human rights abuses is not only to the past. Even today conducted a political, cultural and economic oppression of the Kurdish people in Turkey.

Intelligentsia Gulan Avci The Chairman for the Liberal Immigrant Federation in Stockholm is famous for her involvement in the Kurdish and Armenian questions. Gulan supported the US congress resolution for Armenian genocide resolution with motivation "It is important because it will give peace among the souls of the Armenian people...". She has also criticised that Kurds that speak Kurdish in Turkey are prosecuted and that those who speak about the genocide are thrown into jail.
Intelligentsia Rebwar Hassan 5 March 2009 "When talking about the Armenian genocide, Turkey have always denied this, despite all evidence, that the scientific community has recognized it, most countries around the world talking about the murder of over one million Armenians, but Turkey still insists on a policy to not talk about it but it is happening now is positive and on track towards that Turkey recognize the genocide against Armenians and other crimes as well, but it is not enough right now. There needs to be more pressure on Turkey from the EU".
Intelligentsia Sivan Perwer Expressed himself several times about the Armenian genocide as a mistake, in an interview Sivan did with Freemuse.org about artist censorship he spoke about the genocide as something the Turks want to do against the Kurds as well.
Facebook:Kurdish group Facebook group is created called "Kurds Recognize the Armenian Genocide"
Intelligentsia Özz Nujjen He has several times mentioned the denial of the Armenian genocide in Turkey.
Intelligentsia Haydar Işik Author and former chairman of PEN-Kurd wrote a long letter on his homepage where he wrote that the Armenian genocide was one the two largest genocides of the twentieth century.
Intelligentsia Sakine Madon The Turkish community of Sweden reported her to the police for insulting Kemal Atatürk and for speaking about the Armenian genocide. Turkish media was reporting false articles about her after this and even that the King of Sweden apologized for her behaviour.
Intelligentsia Dilsa Demirbag Sten 2006 Dilsa wrote an article in Dagens Nyheter about the Kurdish involvement in the genocide against the Christians, her grandmothers stories and how she still had nightmares from the Armenian women's getting raped and murdered. She also wrote that Turkey should recognize the killings as a genocide and that the genocide is also a part of Swedish history because of the 5.000 Armenians settled in Sweden.
Intelligentsia/Academic Kerim Yildiz 2008 Kerim Yildiz writes about the Armenian and the Assyrian Genocides in his book (co-authored with Mark Muller) "European Union and Turkish Accession: Human Rights and the Kurds", published in 2008.
Intelligentsia Berzan Boti 2009 Berzan Boti returned his property to the Assyrians.

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