Turkish President reopens wounds of Armenian genocide
MAY 27, 2020 – PROVENANCE: FSSPX.NEWS:
In an attempt to exploit the health and economic crisis as a consequence of the coronavirus epidemic for political ends, the Turkish president spoke contemptuously of the Christians who survived the Armenian genocide, provoking the ire of the opposition.
Placing the Covid-19 pandemic on the political field, Recep Tayyip Erdogan denounced on May 11, 2020 the “Armenian and Greek pressure groups” (?) Which, according to him, would take advantage of the state of health emergency in order to hatch plans to destabilize Turkey. And to warn that he would not let it go.
The day before, during a meeting devoted to the health crisis, the Turkish president had explained to have foiled several subversive actions of the “terrorists” escaped with the sword “”. An expression designating the Armenian Christians who escaped the massacres organized in 1915 by the Ottoman power.
The opposition protested. Garo Paylan, an Armenian deputy in the Turkish parliament, described the intervention of the head of state as “repugnant”. “This name (the” escaped sword “) refers to those who, like my grandmother, survived the Armenian genocide. Every time we hear this sentence, the wounds start bleeding again, ”laments the MP.
After his failure in the 2019 municipal elections, President Erdogan maintains the myth of a conquering Turkey, heir to the heyday of the Ottoman Empire. To this end, the distant heir to the sultans is no longer exaggerated by rhetoric, while the economic shock, a consequence of the epidemic, threatens.
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