The Australian-Turkish Community attacked a Greek Australian South Australian MP in a letter to all Members of the South Australian House of Assembly.
The Australian Turkish Advocacy Alliance Executive Secretary Baris Atayman was critical of Tom Koutsantonis MP following “his disbelief” in his proposed motion for the state government to recognise 19 May as the official day of remembrance of the Greek genocide.
Mr Atayman accused the former SA Treasurer that his move was a distraction motivated “solely by Tom Koutsantonis’ personal ethnic bias, irrelevant to the daily needs of the good people of South Australia, who are looking up to their politicians to deliver solutions for more pressing issues such as COVID19 and the subsequent economic fall-out.”
Greek-Australian State MP successfully pushes motion for South Australia to recognise Artsakh
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The Republic of Artsakh has been recognised by a second Australian state thanks to the efforts of Greek-Australian Tom Koutsantonis.
Koutsantonis, who represents West Torrens as a Member of the South Australian Parliament, called out the “policy of Pan-Turkish nationalism” endorsed by Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan and his Azeri counterpart Ilham Aliyev.
Because of the motion pushed forward by Koutsantonis and his Labor Party colleague Jayne Stinson, South Australia became the second state in Australia to recognise the Republic of Artsakh.
The New South Wales Parliament’s Legislative Assembly recognised the Republic of Artsakh in October 2020.
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