Tension … young Assyrian protesters gather outside the Fairfield Council building while the decision on the memorial was being debated. At least 40 police stood by.
MORE than 200 members of Sydney’s Turkish and Assyrian communities were separated by police outside the Fairfield Council offices last night after the council approved plans for a monument commemorating what was called the Assyrian genocide.
At least 40 police stood between the two groups as the council considered plans for the first ever Australian memorial to Assyrians killed by Turkish forces during World War I and subsequent conflicts.
A local group, calling itself the Assyrian Universal Alliance, had proposed to build a 4.5-metre-high memorial to victims of the Assyrian genocides in a reserve under construction opposite Bonnyrigg Park.
However, the move is bitterly opposed by the local Turkish community, which disagrees with the Assyrians’ interpretation of the past.
Its not about “interpretation”- the Turks have wiped out the Christian Armenians, the Assyrians and the Greeks. It took them less than 400 years. Instead of facing up to the genocide, they dig their heels in and deny it.
Once Muslim numbers in Australia achieved critical mass, Christians and Jews will be wiped out too…..
At least 100 Turkish Australians bearing signs critical of the proposal gathered at the front of the council building while at least as many Assyrians draped in Assyrian and Armenian flags stood on the other side.
At 7.30pm the council voted to approve the monument, producing a spontaneous outburst by the Assyrians. ”Winner, winner, winner – thank you Australia,” one jubilant Assyrian said.
A Turkish protester Gokhan Tugcu, 25, said the monument was divisive and should never have been allowed. ”Australia, being a multicultural society shouldn’t have things like this that divide the different cultures that live here. [It's] a statue now, it could be in the school curriculum later on,” Mr Tugcu said.
As the crowd left the council emotions grew. One man standing with the Turkish group called out ”Ottomans” and slid his fingers across his throat.
Hermiz Shahen, the deputy secretary of the Assyrian Alliance, said that the monument was never intended as an insult.
”If you respect the ANZACS, you are not insulting the Turkish people,” he said. ”We just want to erect a monument to respect the victims of genocide”.
But a local resident, Adem Cetinay, who has a Turkish background, believes that the memorial is already causing a split.
”We’re dividing the community and that has never happened before,” he said.
You can’t divide what what never meant to be together, Adem.
Within two days of hearing about the proposed memorial, Mr Cetinay obtained more than 800 signatures for a petition opposing it.
”If it goes ahead, our kids are going to grow up here with this monument in their faces,” he said. The Local Government Association of NSW has formally recognised that genocide was perpetrated against the Assyrians since World War I.
But neither the NSW Government nor the Federal Government have come to the same conclusion.
Surprisingly, those who disagree are “right-wingers” like Andrew Bolt:
A memorial to mark where Australia lost
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Go home Turks.
The Assyrians belong on the ANZUS side.
As it’s been said on here before, Turk Lies are as common as beach sand. They deny, distort, and distract. What do you expect from inbreds?
I am not for name calling… I am for exposing the real faciste Turkey to the world and its quite recent “past” genocidal policies against Christians of their Western and Northern Zaza Provinces and the genuine Anatolian Greeks, Kurds and Alevi populations.
In June 2008, there was the 70th commemoration of one of the most forgotten genocide in history of the Turkey. It is the Dersim genocide against the Kurds and Alevi people of Anatolia. While all the countries of the world were busy fighting their WWII, the young Turks were slaughtering en mass their Kurdish and Alevi population to get rid of the undesirable for the sole purpose of Tukification of Anatolia which by the way these facist young turks wanted to modernize . What a shame… While the nazis disappeared to oblivion as a political force, Turks in general still to this day, do not want to come to term with its dirty past. And all it takes is simply a recognition of the past and an admitance of the wrong doings of their debauched modernising leaders who wanted to be like Europeans..
http://forum.hyeclub.com/showthread.php?p=278151
And these disgusting people are those for whom the mother EU countries are sodomizing themselves to welcome into their parlors. Thomas Payne had it right – “the price of freedom is eternal vigilance.”