June 14, stood in Ankara a conference dedicated to the memory of Paramaz and his companions, the twenty HENTCHAKIAN heroes who sacrificed their lives defending their ideals of justice and liberty.
They were sentenced to death by hanging 15 June 1915, while the extermination of the Armenians plan was running, because they had planned to assassinate the triumvirate of Talaat, Enver and Djemal, head of Ittihad ve Teraki. This decision was taken at the 7th Congress of the Social Democratic Party HENTCHAKIAN (PSDH) September 7, 1913 in Constance, Romania.
This conference was held at the headquarters of the Socialist Yeniden Kurulush Partisi (Socialist Party New Kurulush). Spoke, Saro Mardiryan, National Secretary of the PSD HENTCHAKIAN in France, Sait Cetinoglu, Turkish researcher Mustafa Kahya, president of the Ankara branch of SYKP.
“We worked hard in the seventeen countries where PSDH operates, to live this memory that belongs to the whole Armenian nation,” said Kevork Satchlian, president of PSDH in France, which continues: “What is new, is that for the first time a Turkish Socialist Party recognizes Paramaz the first great figure of socialism in Turkey and he informed Ankara, the capital. “
Saro Mardiryan attributes this progress to two factors: “First, the evolution of Turkish civil society on the issue of the Armenian Genocide by Hrant Dink, and secondly through the work of Sait Cetinoglu which was the first published in Turkey, from 2007, articles on TWENTY HANGED HENTCHAKIAN without forgetting Zarakolu which helped to know this history, by taking part in the organization of the first conference on the subject June 15, 2013 in Istanbul. “
A minute’s silence before the start of the conference.
“Stand in front of a Turkish public rarely has the opportunity to meet Armenians and see young people standing fist to honor the memory of Paramaz and his companions in misfortune Me, and less than one hundred and fifty meters from the Turkish parliament and the office of head of government, is something that I could not even imagine! “Said Saro Mardiryan. “While we remain clear about the denialist Turkish state policy and the relative impact of the initiatives of the Turkish civil society on public opinion which ignores its own history, but it is clear that we have in recent years dealing with a change in Turkey gaining more and more circles which will sooner or later effects. “
Kevork Satchlian concludes “As Armenian political organization, we continue our openness towards the left parties in Turkey, we reach out to them, they have an important role to play to promote and recognize the reality of the Armenian Genocide role, prepare Field of apology and compensation by the Turkish state. “
The Social Democratic party HENTCHAKIAN reiterates its call to establish a common platform that would include civil and political organizations as well as individuals, regardless of the country they are eager to participate in the organization of the centenary celebrations of genocide Armenians in Turkey.
Paris 15 June 2014