CONCORDVILLE (Hellenicnews.com) –The UN marks its 75th anniversary with its opening session on September 15, 2020. When it gavels-in, the president who will be calling the UNGA to order will be Turkish diplomat Volkan Bozkir, a Genocide-denier.
Bozkir refuses to admit to the great genocide of Christians – Armenians, Assyrians and Greeks – that remains a blight on Turkey’s past. In 2015, then-Turkish Minister for European Affairs Bozkir described Pope Francis’ statement as “history falsifying” and rejected Pope Francis’ statement over the 1915 incidents, which the pontiff described as genocide. “There is no period of time in Turkey’s history that it would be ashamed of. Efforts towards constituting an identity based on falsified documents will fail,” Bozkir said.
In 2019, each chamber of the U.S. Congress passed a resolution affirming the Armenian Genocide with language acknowledging the great genocide of an estimated three million Christian minorities.
Further, Mr. Bozkir is representing a country, the Republic of Turkey, that suppresses religious liberty, stands in violation of UN Security Council Resolutions regarding its 1974 invasion and subsequent 46-year illegal
