"No inch of land to Turks"
Gegharkunik's resident Hripsime Atayan arrived in Yerevan today to participate in ARF-Dashnaktsutiun's protest march and rally against the recently announced Protocols between Armenia and Turkey.
As a participant of the Karabakh war, Mrs. Atayan thinks Armenia should go to no concessions.
"Armenians have shed blood on those lands and today they are forced to yield their ancestor's heritage to Turkey. I am here today to demand my land and to say "no" to Turkey. We shall cede not a single inch of land," Hripsime Atayan said to A1+.
"The Protocols' signing will lead to Armenia's fall," says ARF member Tigran Karapetian who had arrived from Garni.
"We witness white slaughter today. If once Turks unsheathed their sword against Armenians today they assassinate us peacefully with the Protocols. I have come to urge Serzh Sargsyan to give up the intention of signing," says Mr. Karapetian.
ARF member Hakob Sahakian is for the frontier reopening provided that Turkey recognizes the Armenian Genocide.
"I am here to pay our debt to the 1.5 victims of the Genocide. Let Turkey first recognize the Genocide and then open the border," says Mr. Sahakian.
Remind that the Foreign Ministers of Armenia and Turkey will sign the Protocols on establishing diplomatic relations between Armenia and Turkey in Zürich, Switzerland, on October 10.
