Turkish Human Rights Group sent letters to the Catholicos of the Great House of Cilicia, His Holiness Aram I and Catholicos of All Armenians Karekin II, Armenian Weekly reports.
The letter to His Holiness Aram I runs as follows:
‘Your Holiness,
Today is the 24th of April, 2012, the 97th anniversary of the arrests of the Armenian intellectuals of Istanbul, which represents the beginning of the Armenian Genocide.
As a result of the process of genocide which began with the arrests in Istanbul on April 24, 1915, the Cilicia Catholicosate, which has not only been one of the spiritual centers of the historic Western Armenia for hundreds of years but which also represents its cultural and social identity, was forcibly displaced to Lebanon from the lands where it belonged. As defenders of human rights in Turkey, we are writing this letter to you to express our belief that it is in these lands that your Catholicosate belongs.
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