Ireland should recognise the Armenian genocide

HDP co-chairs Selahattin Demirtas and Figen Yüksekdag said the state should issue state-level apologies for genocides and massacres committed against different groups over the years.

Armenian Genocide recognition refers to the formal acceptance that the massacre and forced deportation of Armenians committed by the Ottoman Empire in 1915–1923 constitutes genocide.

So far the governments of 28 countries, including Russia, Brazil, France, Germany, and Canada as well as 43 states of the United States of America and the European Parliament have recognised the events as ‘genocide’.

The Irish Government and Dáil Éireann have so far refused to recognise the Armenian genocide. Given the similarities between Irish and Armenian histories and cultures, it is very important that Ireland should formally recognise the Armenian massacres as genocide, especially in this centenary year of those tragic events.

Edward Horgan

Newtown

Castletroy

Limerick