Diaspora Armenians Are In Continuous Contact With PKK Terrorist Organization, Egilmez

11/16/2006
Anatolia Times

ERZURUM - "Armenian Diaspora supported and expended large amounts of financial assistance to terrorist PKK to weaken and fragment Turkey," Associate Professor Savas Egilmez, the Chairman of Association on Fight Against Baseless Allegations of Genocide, said on Thursday.
In an exclusive interview with the A.A correspondent, Egilmez said, "we have been carrying out intensive efforts in the national and international platforms to explain that so-called allegations of Armenian genocide is a lie."

"Despite the affirmative responses, we started to get negative reactions recently. We have assessed that supporters of the terrorist organization is the source of the reactions that were sent through e-mail," he noted.

Egilmez indicated that Armenian-PKK relationship was once again revealed with the reactions, noting that "upon the reactions in the world in 1980`s, the Armenian terrorist organizations changed tactics and cooperated with the PKK terrorist organization."

Egilmez said terrorist PKK organization in 1980 proclaimed April 21-28 the week of "Red Week" and remembered April 24th as the so-called genocide day of the Armenians.

"Another remarkable example regarding Armenian-PKK relationship is the meeting in Beirut between January 6 and 9, 1993. Lebanese Armenian Orthodox Archbishop, Armenian party executives and 150 youngsters attended the meetings that were held in two separate churches. At the meeting, the Archbishop underlined that the Armenian society was growing gradually and strengthened in economic means. He said so-called genocide was started to be known better in the world thanks to the propaganda activities," Egilmez said.

"The Archbishop unveiled their real faces by saying, `Armenian state was established and broadens its territories day by day. The support to PKK activities in Turkey rises. Thanks to this support, Turkish economy will drop to zero, the country will be dragged into chaos, and Turkey will enter fragmentation process. Turkish territories will be in the hands of Armenia tomorrow`," Egilmez said.

-PKK-ARMENIAN AGREEMENT-

Egilmez said the Armenian diaspora in Lebanon made an agreement with the terrorist organization in 1987.

"A decision was made in the agreement that Armenians would get training in PKK. It was also decided that Armenians would pay 5,000 USD to PKK for each person," he said.

Egilmez said, "it was also decided in the agreement that Armenians would make the intelligence in the activities against security forces in Turkey. It was even stated in this agreement that the territory that would be seized after fragmentation of Turkey would be shared equally. Armenians also pledged to meet 75 percent of the costs of camps of the terrorist organization."

-U.S. AND OTHERS-

Underlining that the United States and the European countries accepted PKK as terrorist organization, Egilmez said, "the U.S. and European countries know about the relations of the Armenians with PKK. Those who want to accuse Turkey should not forget this fact."

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