Symposium in Cairo on Leader Abdullah Ocalan’s approach to Armenian question

Amid a group of intellectuals, writers, and politicians, the Armenian National Committee in Egypt held a symposium, “The Armenian Question in Ocalan’s Thought,” on the 110th anniversary of the Armenian Genocide. Dr. Mohammad Rifaat al-Imam delivered a lecture in the symposium chaired by Karam Saeed.

Participants praised Leader Abdullah Ocalan’s ideology that calls for coexistence and tolerance, terming him one of the founding fathers of the culture of tolerance and democracy.

The head of the organization, Armen Mazloumian, emphasized the importance of the timing and sensitive regional circumstances, citing the Armenian anniversary and the current Kurdish situation.

The symposium host, political analyst Karam Saeed, continued, “It also falls at a sensitive and important time. At the Armenian level, we are nearing the customary anniversary of the Ottoman Armenian genocide, and at the Kurdish level, it is being held under unprecedented circumstances and developments related to the peace initiative proposed by Abdullah Ocalan.”

For his part, Dr. Rifaat al-Imam introduced the thought of Leader Abdullah Öcalan as a left, humanist intellectual who addressed the Armenian genocide from a cultural and civilizational perspective, extolling Armenian culture and resistance, and highlighting the shared destiny of Kurds and Armenians throughout history.

Al-Imam also mentioned Leader Abdullah Ocalan’s description of the reasons for the genocide, including the war between religious identities and the negative role of “divide and conquer” policies, and explained that he focused on cultural genocide as the most dangerous.

In short, Karam Saeed underlined that the things uniting Armenians and Kurds are more than the things dividing them, praising the figure of Leader Abdullah Ocalan as one of the most prominent advocates of peace and tolerance in the Middle