N. Lygeros
The
genocide of the Armenians was only the beginning and we do not simply mean that
it was generalized in the genocide of the Assyro-Chaldeans, Jews and Pontians.
For, it was a collective and total endeavor to extinguish any non-Muslim
population in the territory of the Ottoman Empire. No, when we mean that it was
only the beginning, we want to put an emphasis on the fact that the attempts of
Turkey still continue. Not only with its penal code, which inflicts a penalty
of a ten-year imprisonment for any reference to the genocide of the Armenians,
but also with its role through the Azeris as regards the Artsakh issue. It is
not possible not to realize that Turkey is trying to systematically extinguish
any negative element in the area. We all know that the Azeris did not become
Turks by war, but they have always been Turks. 