Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan is increasing his pretensions to the role of judge in regional issues. Erdogan reached the peak when he called on the Syrian regime “not to massacre” people, adding that “otherwise the history will always remember it as sanguinary”, Assembly of Armenians of Europe says in Appeal to Arab World, Europe and International Public opinion.

How the heir of those who built their state on the corpses of the Armenian people dares to teach morality to others. Opposing to the reasonable world and rejecting even the proposals of the progressive intellectuals of Turkey, instead of acknowledging the monstrous crime committed by their ancestors against humanity – the Armenian Genocide, and the fact of forcing Armenians deportation from their historical native cradle and asking forgiveness, Mr. Erdoghan and the rest of the Turkish officials keep leading the genocide policy trying to dispute the occurrence of the Armenian Genocide, the AAE says.

Mr. Erdogan has no right to teach morality to others unless he listens to the appeals of the European leaders and comes to terms with the dark pages of its history, and only after Turkey can be accepted as a family member of a civilized world. Turkey is also opposed to proofreading the discriminatory civil legislation of the country. This demand has been hanging over the country for three decades: first of all Turkey is urged to abolish the notorious medieval Article 301, the latest victims of which became the publicist Ragip Zarakolu, who used to voice about the sufferings of national minorities -victims of the Turkish discriminatory policy, it says.

The assembly goes on to note that Turkey’s “Zero problem with neighbors” double-natured policy has turned into “Zero friendship with neighbors” policy. Turkey provokes daily tension with its neighbors and opposes to the appeals of the international community continuing persistently the 37-year occupation of Northern Cyprus.

Hence, naïve would be those, who believe Turkey pursues humanitarian rather than selfish ends in Gaza, in case it has been blockading the small Armenia for already 18 years without concealing its chauvinistic ideas on supporting its brother Azerbaijan, it says.

We appeal on the Arab World, in particular peoples of Egypt, Tunisia, Lydia, Syria and Iraq not to trust Turkey and remain independent. Arab people, who met with open arms the survivals of the Armenian Genocide in 1915, were also a victim of Turkey’s policy. It is wrong to trust Turkey today since it no longer hides its dream of restoring the Ottoman Empire which massacred and enslaved the peoples of the region. We appeal on European and international structures not to involve Turkey in any regional humanitarian programs until it acknowledges the genocide it committed against Armenians and fulfills the preconditions set by the European structures, the Assembly concluded.