Turkey's Labor Party (EMEK) has disseminated a statement on the Armenian Genocide Centennial wherein it calls the actions of the Young Turks in 1915 as planned cleaning the territory of Turkey from non-Turks and non-Muslims.
EMEK Party says it sympathizes with the Armenians and other peoples that suffered the Genocide. Without recognizing the Armenian Genocide, without apologizing, and without fight the racist policy, Turkey cannot become a democratic state, EMEK said in a statement. A number of human rights organizations of Turkey also made statements calling on Turkey authorities to recognize the Genocide.