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DEM Party on the September 6-7 Pogroms: “We Will Not Forget Those Dark Days”

From Cumhuriyet · () Turkish

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  • Turkey’s DEM Party issued a statement on the September 6-7 events, saying the country must confront that history.
  • The party said preventing similar suffering requires taking responsibility today and refusing to allow hatred to be organized.

“We will not forget those dark days,” the DEM Party said in a statement on the September 6-7 events.

We will not forget those dark days.

· DEM PartyThe party’s statement on the September 6-7 events.

The party said genuinely confronting the past means more than remembering what happened. It argued that people must also take responsibility in the present to ensure similar suffering does not happen again.

Genuinely confronting the past is not only remembering what happened; it is taking responsibility today so that similar suffering does not happen again.

· DEM PartyThe party explained what it believes historical reckoning requires.

The DEM Party identified its central responsibility as preventing hatred from being organized. Its statement framed remembrance as a continuing obligation rather than a matter confined to the past.

The greatest responsibility the September 6-7 events leave us is not allowing hatred to be organized.

· DEM PartyThe party identified its central lesson from the events.
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