Kurdistan National Congress (KNK) has urged Turkey to confront its history, to recognize the Armenian genocide, apologise to Armenians and to meet the demands of the inheritors.

KNK said in a written statement on the occasion of the centenary of the Armenian genocide that; “Each constitutional state with a conscience must urge the Turkish state to account for this crime against humanity”.

KNK recalled in its statement that not hundreds or thousands but one and half million Armenians were massacred, exterminated, deported from their homelands on the orders of the CUP (Committee of Union and Progress), adding that the Syriacs, Assyrians and Chaldeans as well as Yazidi Kurds were also exposed to same genocide which they call “Seyfo”.

Kurdistan National Congress stressed that the CUP of the Ottoman Empire, which acted with the mentality of Turkish racism, turned Anatolia and Kurdistan into a blood bath, perpetrated savage mass killings and aimed to exterminate Armenian, Syriac, Chaldean and Yazidi Kurdish communities with policies of 'beheading'.

Pointing out that the CUP in war times was in preparation to build a racist Turkish state out of the ruins of the Ottaman Empire, KNK said the existence of Armenians, Assyrians, Syriacs and Chaldeans was an obstacle to that aim and therefore the CUP targeted the non-Muslim communities in the name of Islam for a total islamisation and Turkification of the Anatolia and Kurdistan region.

KNK emphasized in the statement that the Turkish state has perpetuated the genocide mentality by denying it, and strongly urged Turkey to confront its history and to recognize the genocide.

“We announce once again at the 100th anniversary of the genocide that the Kurdish people share the pains of Armenians, Syriacs, Assyrians and Chaldeans and stand in fraternity with them”, said the KNK, adding that the Kurdish people never forget what happened in today’s process of building Kurdistan and are working together with all the communities who have suffered massacres and cruelty, to build a democratic country and a society.

KNK ended its statement by reiterating its call to the Turkish state to recognize the genocide, to apologise to all the peoples subjected to genocide, Armenians in the first place, and to meet all the demands of the inheritors.