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Sharp Rise in Hate Speech Threatens Turkey’s Armenians
This week, Turkey’s Armenian Parliamentarian Garo Paylan of the pro-Kurdish Peoples’ Democratic Party (HDP) voiced concerns over rising hate speech against Armenians in Turkey. Three days later, he sounded the alarm over threats to his own safety. Now, others are concerned too. Meanwhile, intimidation tactics against Armenians continue, with the latest anti-Armenian convoy circling the former Agos offices and the Hrant Dink Memorial site, where a plaque marks the spot the Turkish Armenian editor of Agos was gunned down by an ultra-nationalist youth in 2007.
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Thank you, Nanore, for this excellent and thorough, if depressing, piece. We are all worried for Garo Paylan’s safety and for the well-being of the Armenians of Turkey. May this horrific war soon be over.
Somebody tell the Armenians in Istanbul to leave that place for good,it’s not homeland and how can any body be comfortable living in a place that their close families had been murdered, I just can’t comprehend, they are delusional, just spit and leave place ,wake up
Armenians living in Turkey are on the edge of mass pogroms…
This war can have dire consequences for the Armenians in Turkey. The international community should consider their safety as they drag their heels into action.
And these are the tweets of just one influential figure, who happens to be the editor-in-chief of a widely read conservative Turkish newspaper.