Turkish Lawyer Asks Ankara Court To Recognize Armenian Genocide

A top notch lawyer in Turkey has urged the the court in Ankara and the government of Turkey to recognize the Armenian Genocide and remove all the statues of the former interior minister Talat Pasha from the country as one of the organizers of the Armenian Genocide.

This may be one of the very rare cases when the Armenian genocide discussion moves from parliaments to legal field in courts. In a very rare case, the Armenian genocide discussion moves from parliament to a legal field in court. Most importantly, the case originated in Turkey's capital, Ankara.

According one of the top Turkish newspapers Haberturk, a famous Turkish lawyer Bendal Jalil Ezman petitioned the Turkish government and the court to recognize the Armenian Genocide whcih happened in 1915-1921 and remove all the statues of Talat Pasha from the country as well as rename all the street names that are named after him. According to the Ezman, after examining the events of those years he came to the conclusion that Talaat Pasha actually committed a crime and is the author of the Armenian Genocide.

Thus, with this connection, Ezman asks the court in Turkey to qualify those horrific events of killing 1.5 million Armenians as genocide. He said Armenian citizens of the Ottoman Empire were systematically slaughtered and Turkey should face its past.

"Turkey must face its past. Such a case is opened for the first time in Turkey," said attorney Ezman. Asked if he fears any negative reaction he said "if it comes, predestination is something in my head."

More members of the Turkish society have come forward in the recent years acknowledging the Armenian Genocide. As the society aspires for European Union membership and the government proceeds more democratic reforms and opening discussions about the past are being made possible and more people learn about the past dark pages of the Ottoman period when 1.5 million Armenians were slaughtered and deported from their living place and thus deprived from their fatherland in Eastern Anatolia as part of a systematic ethnic cleansing program carried be the government of Young Turks. More than 20 parliaments in the world have called those events genocide.

It's unknown when the court will consider Ezman's lawsuit.

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