Armenian genocide: Kurdish leaders show their moral 'Superiority' and example to Turkey by facing their crimes.

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Hmmmm....."It is not possible for those who belong to the Muslim faith to carry out genocide." Source.

Armenian genocide: Kurdish leaders show their moral 'Superiority' and example to Turkey by facing their crimes.(IBT).

Selahattin Demirtas, the Kurdish co-chairperson of the Peoples' Democratic Party (HDP):

During the Armenian Genocide, there was no Kurdish state. Kurds did not have any political authority to rule their own lands, either. So they were not the planners or organisers of the Armenian Genocide; the Turkish Ottoman regime was.

But some of the Kurds were recruited in a branch of the Ottoman Army called the Hamidiye corps [literally meaning "belonging to Hamid" (Abdul Hamid II, the then-Caliph of Islam and Sultan of the Ottoman Empire)] and under the command of the Ottoman Army, they engaged in the killings of Armenians.

Today – 100 years after the genocide - Kurds in Turkey still do not have any political authority in their own lands but they do recognise the Armenian genocide, commemorate the victims and call the Turkish government to apologise to the Armenian people.

'Without hesitation, I recognize the Armenian Genocide'

"Both during my deputyship and before that - when I was a human rights lawyer - my stance toward this issue has never changed.

"Just because some people have covered up such a tragic historical incident by saying that 'the official history [of the Ottoman Empire and Turkey] is not like that', I will not bow to it," said Demirtas. "Whatever happened should be acknowledged."

When asked whether Kurds also had a role in the genocide, Demirtas responded: "Everybody including the Kurds did. But the political authority was the Ottoman regime led by Talaat Pasha, and Djemal Pasha. Whoever gave the orders, carried out the project and made the decisions [regarding the Armenian Genocide] – that is, the ideology of the government of Union and Progress - should be brought to account before history."

Demirtas said that for Turkey to be a democracy, facing and recognising this issue is of great significance:

"I think that the AKP government is the political authority that [claims to have] inherited the legacy of the Ottomans the most... If you lay claim to the entire heritage of the Ottoman Empire, then you should lay claim to this incident, as well. So [they should] get up and apologise."Read the full story here.

Related:  Kurds in Turkey atone for their role in the Armenian genocide