22nd Yörük Türkmen (Nomadic Turcoman / Yoruk /Yuruk) Festivity and 1st International Yörük Festival took place in Antalya. During the closing on May 10, 2015, Barrister Mustafa Aykut Sağ, from the Antalya Yörük Türkmen Association, delivered a statement on behalf of Union of Yörük Türkmen Associations concerning Yörüks' views on adoption of resolutions recognizing 1915 tragic events as genocide by some parliaments in Europe. A video recording is available on the Facebook page of the World Union of Yörüks.
Devrim Aşkın Karasoy has reported in Aydınlık daily paper that the statement covers the following points:
“Our country and our nation have been confronted with a serious encirclement in recent years. On the pretext of some internal turmoil lived through in 1915, calumniation that there has been a genocide is being imposed to form an international public opinion in this direction. It is evident that this "genocide allegations" is an encirclement. Turkish nation has been subjected to a calumniation campaign for an alleged crime never perpetrated."
“We would like this fact to be heard worldwide that there has never been a genocide in 4652 years history of Turks. Turks have a clean history. However, the record of the Western World which calumniate us is not so clean. We would like to point that those countries who allege that there has been a genocide have been committing a crime in the face of truth, scholarship and history, and they are committing massacres themselves."
"Our final word in this regard is that "Our country and people is forced to bow down over this calumniation. But nobody was able to denigrate us so far, and will never be able to."
"Our final word in this regard is that "Our country and people is forced to bow down over this calumniation. But nobody was able to denigrate us so far, and will never be able to."
"We, Yörük Türkmen (Yoruk Turcomans) are aware of the game displayed against our country through a calumniation, and we undertake it as a duty to declare that we will resist this effort of encirclement to the end."
Yörüks from the Balkans and Turkic republics have also participated in the festival.
Sources
Yörüklerden Ermeni yalanına manifestoyla yanıt. Aydınlık. 12.05.2015.
http://www.aydinlikgazete.com/politika/yoruklerden-ermeni-yalanina-manifestoyla-yanit-h69738.html
Yörüks. Wikipedia. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Y%C3%B6r%C3%BCks
All accessed on 12.05.2015
Yörüks. Wikipedia. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Y%C3%B6r%C3%BCks
All accessed on 12.05.2015
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