AYF Canada Stage Mass Walkout at Ottawa University to Protest Genocide Denial
March 8, 2016
Members of AYF Cananda during their walkout.
OTTAWA(Horizon Weekly) ”“ On Saturday, March 5, members of the Armenian Youth Federation of Canada (AYF Canada), in collaboration with the Armen Karo Student Association and the Armenian Students’ Association at Carleton University, conducted a mass walk-out at Carlton University, to express their concern and indignation to the administration of Carleton University and the Norman Paterson School of International Affairs (NSPIA).
The university’s administration and the NSPIA collaborated with the Council of Turkish Canadians (CTC)””an organization known to promote events denying the Armenian Genocide and present Turkish-Armenian issues in a divisive manner””to hold a two-day conference on Turkish-Canadian relations at the university.
The CTC organized the conference under the deceiving title of “Turkey-Canada Relations in Troubled Times,”
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