Candidate for Turkey Presidency Woos Armenians
ISTANBUL (armradio) — An Armenian organization, Nor Zartonk (New Renaissance), calling itself the organization of the Armenian community in Turkey, has declared its support for Selahattin Demirtas in the presidential elections to be held on August 10, Firat News reports.
Nor Zartonk issued a written statement, saying: “The people, workers and all the excluded have an alternative in these elections against the conservative, nationalist and statist tradition” pointing to Demirtas.
Nor Zartonk emphasized that the candidate of the ruling party, Recep Tayyip Erdogan, has been a person continuing to pursue a century-old state policy of denial, adding that the joint candidate of CHP-MHP Ekmeleddin Ihsanoglu is “a candidate to be the new face of the moderate Islam project.”
Nor Zartonk added: “The people of Turkey are not condemned to these two right-wing candidates, one being an exact copy of the other despite their being promoted in that way. The candidate of the People’s Democratic Party, Selahattin Demirtas, as ‘the candidate of the people and of change’ is the hope of all the working people in the August elections.
Against the two self-same candidates who are in favor of the continuation of the statist policies and the policies of denial, our presidential candidate is Selahattin Demirtas, who marches hand in hand with the people from Sivas to Lice, who exclaims the reality of the Armenian Genocide in parliament, has struggled against all kinds of discrimination throughout his life and who defends the rights of the workers, LGBTI individuals and all the oppressed.
- Selahattin Demirtas
