Committee welcomed Argentina
The Armenian National Committee of Spain welcomed the ruling on Argentinean Judge Gregorio Hayrapetian's claim by which the crime perpetrated against the Armenian population in the Ottoman Empire in 1915-23 is viewed as genocide, as reported by the press divan of the ARF.
In 2000, Gregorio Hayrapetian filed a lawsuit to the Argentinean court with the demand to provide information about his relatives who fell victim to the Armenian Genocide.
During the investigation, the court gathered documents from the archives in Great Britain, the United States, Germany, the Vatican, France and other countries, including reports of ambassadors accredited in the Ottoman Empire, confidential messages, diplomatic epistolary that prove that Ottoman Turkey did perpetrate a planned genocide against the Armenians by killing 1.5 million people, while the survivors were forced to leave their homeland and settle in other countries.
Staying true to its denial policy, the official Ankara has condemned the ruling of the Argentinean court.
Argentina recognized the Armenian Genocide in 2007.
