“This is the time that we move from the stage of [Genocide] recognition to reparation.”
Bravo. Free people may hope that the Church will prevail in the European Court of Human Rights, but it’s likely that the Turks will simply refuse to recognize their ruling if it goes against them. Still, any pushback against the advancing jihad is good, as there is so very little of it.
“Armenian Church Seeks Reparation in Lawsuit Against Turkey,” International Christian Concern, April 30, 2021:
04/30/2021 Turkey (International Christian Concern) – After a six-year struggle for a court hearing, the Armenian Apostolic Church Holy See, known as the Catholicosate of Cilicia, successfully refiled a lawsuit against the government of Turkey. In 2015, the Catholicosate, currently headquartered in Antelias, Lebanon, filed a lawsuit for the return of its historic seat and primary location in Sis, Turkey that was confiscated in 1921 during the Armenian Genocide. The lawsuit is part of Armenian’s larger goal of returning all properties and assets confiscated by Turkey during the eight-year genocide.
Due to technicalities, the lawsuit bounced between local courts, Turkey’s Constitutional Court, and the ECHR. A pre-trial hearing finally took place on March 30, 2021 in the Kozan Civil Litigation Court. At that time a judge agreed to accept the lawsuit, which the Catholicosate’s lawyers consider a positive development. The next hearing is scheduled for May 6, 2021.
The team of lawyers suspects the lower Turkish court will reject the lawsuit, at which point an appeal will be made to the Constitutional Court. Rejection is also suspected at this point which will allow the Catholicosate to file with the European Court of Human Rights.
When the original lawsuit was filed in 2015, Catholicos Aram I said, “This is the time that we move from the stage of [Genocide] recognition to reparation….
mortimer says
Reparations have been paid by Germany and Austria to people in Israel and family and communal properties have been restored to their rightful owners.
It is now time for the international community to insist that Turkey repay the Armenians, the Assyrian Chaldeans and the Pontians for the genocides perpetrated against them by the Turkish government. Family property and communal properties (such as churches) must be restored to their rightful owners.
Hagia Sophia must also eventually be restored to the Orthodox Church. Hagia Sophia is the home of Orthodox Christianity in the same way that the Kaaba is the home of Islam. Surely, the more modern Muslims will receive that argument. The primitive ones of course will not.
Raja says
Mortimer,
With all due respect, your wish list is enlightening but will never become reality as the West still refuses to recognize Islam as a religion of hate and genocide.
gravenimage says
Mortimer, even many otherwise “modern” Muslims still deny the Armenian Genocide and consider it being mentioned an attack on “Turkishness”.
Tonyroddy says
Yes argue with you but we are both dreaming
gravenimage says
Turkey: Armenian Apostolic Church sues government for return of its historic seat, seized during Armenian Genocide
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I doubt that this suit will go anywhere, especially with Turkey fast re-Islamizing under Erdogan.
Still, good for the Church. Kudos to them for making the attempt. Hopefully this will at least draw attention to the terrible injustice of the Armenian Genocide.
Wellington says
When has the Islamic world ever apologized for any wrongdoing, let alone engaging in any kind of reparations, though wrongdoing by the Islamic world over the centuries has been astronomical?
Islam, as with Leftism, adds up to never having to say you’re sorry even though, by any measure, Islam has so very much to be sorry for.
Count on nothing from Islam. In fact, count on less than nothing.
gravenimage says
I know I have never seen it.
gregbeetham says
You never will, Muslims do what the Koran commands them to do and the concept they should ever apologise for doing the works of their Satanic book is in itself blasphemous, actually I read some statement from a cleric that anything proposed by non Muslims that is counter to what the Koran says should be regarded as anti Islamic terrorism.
James Lincoln says
You’ll never see it, Wellington.
After all, it would go against the krazy koran.
Can’t have that!
DAVID R MORRISON says
The koran is the only book they read — it is Never open for discussion ! I wish for the best Justice for Armenia , but sadly , I expect Absolutely Nothing from islam !