DECLARATION

Of all enslaved nations of Turkey to the Public Opinion of mankind and every man of good will, This publication aims:

To attract the attention of mankind to the victims of Turkish atrocities and vandalisms and to perpetuate the historical memory to those acts.

To inform mankind of the policy of genocide for millions of people, followed by all Turkish governments in the recent past against the enslaved inhabitants who lived in Asia Minor and formed the majority of the population.

To extend justice and condemn Turkey for its crimes.

This condemnation is inevitable if there are any traces of civilization and selfrespect left under the veil of hypocricy and immorality of international politics.

The entire history of the Ottoman Empire and contemporary Turkey is a series of continuous imperialism, slaughter, plunder and endless bloodshed of the people who had the misfortune to be conquered by the Turks.

Greeks, Armenians, Syrians, Arabs, Kurds and recently Cypriots were the victims of the Turkish brutality.

The genocide of Armenians and Greeks is numbered in millions of victims. Tens of thousands were the victims of Syrians and Arahs in South East Asia Minor.

Thousands of victims were Kurds seeking their human rights of freedom from the democratic Turkey founded by Kemal Ataturk.

Today the Kurdish population in Turkey is eatimated at about 12.000.000 inhabitants. They don’t have the following basic freedoms : Freedom to speak their language ; to sing their songs; to have their schools; to be taught their language; to have their autonomy and to live free.

For the Turkish government the existence of a Kurdish nationhood is denied and any attempt of protest or uprising is drowned in blood.

The Turks use the same policy in Cyprua which they invaded in 1974 in violation of International Law. This invasion created thousands of victima. Since the invasion the Turks maintain an occupation army in the Northern part of the island contrary to the United Nations decisions and are in the process of changing the demographic composition of Cyprus by transferring Turks from the Turkish mainland to the occupied sector of the island.

If the civilized people of the entire world do not react against such acts, soon a new explosion of Turkish imperialism will evolve. This imperialism in its original phase will threaten all the neighboring countries and subsequently the international peace. Turkey is the only “European” country which contrary to the declarations of the U.N. tries to solve its differences in Cyprus and elsewhere using the forces of arms.

The principles of U.N. for self determination of peoples and peaceful solution of differences among nations do not bind Turkey at all, since Turkey does not respect them.

Furthermore the principles of civilization and humanity whichů are revered by all civilized nations are being discarded by the Turks. Otherwise, there wouldn’t have been all those millions of victims. The atrocities, plunder, vandalism, slaughter and genocide which have been and continue to be committed by the Turks are a stigma to the contemporary civilization.

It is a sign of moral decline of our times that the International Public opinion tolerates these acts of Turkey that degrade human civilization and does not impose a just punishment.

For all these reasons we, the representatives of the subjugated and oppressed people of Turkey appeal and ask from all nations in the world, regardless of the political or religious background, to help us in our unequal struggle.

The photos in this publication are uncontestable testimony to the bahaviour of our Turkish executioners.

Therefore, we ask you to join with us a voice of protest against the Turkish atrocities and declare that we shall continue our struggle to the final victory, the liberation of our ancestral land from our oppressors.

The oppressed nationalities of Asia Minor.

ARMENIANS – KURDS – GREEKS – SYRIANS – CYPRIOTS

 

The turkish monument at Afion Karahissar.