{"id":429,"date":"2013-09-12T11:28:53","date_gmt":"2013-09-12T07:28:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/armeniancause.net\/?p=429"},"modified":"2013-09-13T15:22:46","modified_gmt":"2013-09-13T11:22:46","slug":"monument-of-common-conscience-opens-in-diyarbakir-kurds-apologize-for-genocide","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/armeniancause.net\/?p=429","title":{"rendered":"Monument Of Common Conscience Opens In Diyarbakir. Kurds Apologize For Genocide"},"content":{"rendered":"
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“We share the pain so that it is not repeated”, the inscription on the monument (Photo by Gulisor Akkum, The Armenian Weekly)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

DIYARBAKIR, Turkey (armenianweekly.com<\/a>) \u2014 The Sur Municipality of Diyarbakir held the official inauguration of the Monument of Common Conscience on Sept. 12, with mayor Abdullah Demirba\u015f apologizing in the name of Kurds for the Armenian and Assyrian genocides.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe Kurds, in the name of our ancestors, apologize for the genocide of the Armenians and Assyrians in 1915,\u201d Demirba\u015f declared in his opening speech. \u201cWe will continue our struggle to secure atonement and compensation for them.\u201d
\nThe mayor called upon the Turkish authorities to issue an apology and do whatever needed to atone for the genocide. \u201cWe invite them to take steps in this direction,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

The inscription on the monument at the Anzele Park, near a recently restored historic fountain, reads, in six languages including Armenian: We share the pain so that it is not repeated.<\/p>\n

\u201cThis memorial is dedicated to all peoples and religious groups who were subjected to genocide in these lands,\u201d Demirba\u015f said. \u201cThe Monument of Common Conscience was erected to remember and demand accountability for all the massacres that took place since 1915.\u201d<\/p>\n

Demirba\u015f noted that the monument remembers all the Armenians, Assyrians, Jews, Yezidis, Alevis who were subjected to genocide, as well as all the Sunni who \u201cstood against the system.\u201d<\/p>\n

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A scene from the inauguration of the monument. (Photo by Gulisor Akkum, The Armenian Weekly)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Representatives of the Armenian, Assyrian, Alevi, and Sunni communities also spoke at the opening event. Diyarbakir Armenian writer Mgrditch Margosyan welcomed the opening of the memorial, noting that he awaits the steps that would follow.
\nIn turn, Zahit \u00c7iftkuran, head of the Diyarbakir association of the clergy, apologized for the genocide. He recounted the story of a man who, while walking by a restaurant, notices the following sign: \u201cYou eat, your grandchildren pay the bill.\u201d Enthused by the promise of free lunch, the man goes in and orders food. Soon, they bring him an expensive bill. \u201cBut I was not supposed to pay! Where did this bill come from?\u201d the man asks. The owner of the restaurant responds: \u201cThis is not your bill. It is your grandfather\u2019s!\u201d<\/p>\n

\u00c7iftkuran concluded, \u201cToday, we have to pay for what our grandparents have done.\u201d<\/p>\n

The Armenian Weekly Diyarbakir correspondent Gulisor Akkum prepared this report.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

DIYARBAKIR, Turkey (armenianweekly.com) \u2014 The Sur Municipality of Diyarbakir held the official inauguration of the Monument of Common Conscience on Sept. 12, with mayor Abdullah Demirba\u015f apologizing in the name of Kurds for the Armenian and Assyrian genocides. \u201cWe Kurds, in the name of our ancestors, apologize for the genocide of the Armenians and Assyrians […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-429","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/armeniancause.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/429","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/armeniancause.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/armeniancause.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/armeniancause.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/armeniancause.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=429"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/armeniancause.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/429\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":433,"href":"https:\/\/armeniancause.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/429\/revisions\/433"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/armeniancause.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=429"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/armeniancause.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=429"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/armeniancause.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=429"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}