During our election campaign work, we have made an effort to keep a straight and clear attitude about right violations.

However, while having done this, we have driven ourselves into an unexplainable negligence.

In such cases, the only thing to do is to apologize and to learn the lesson.

Those who fail to do so with honesty match the phrase: “If you want to make an error bigger, keep defending it”.

The first of these errors was not to include our position about the situation of LGBT members, which yet had a place in our election bulletin, in our brochure.

To get through and overcome this error as well as to make an apology, we organized a meeting at LAMBDA Association.

There, I took full responsibility of the mistake without hiding anything and apologised.

The result of the meeting was our commitment to take a closer and a deeper stance about the sensitivities, problems and situations of homosexuals.

In order not to limit my apology to the sole members of LGBT, I took it as my duty to share it with the public.

The second meeting was made with women, most of them feminists.

Despite me being unaware of it I was clearly using “macho” concepts and sentences, which were creeping into my language. I was criticised harshly by the women.

What a shame. I realized the distance I needed to cover as to this issue.

The third case is about the Armenian people.

About a year ago I held a very assertive position about “Kurt Musa” [controversial character with ambiguous role in the genocide] during the tv program “Like-minded”. My position contained two mistakes.

The first one is that I told the story of “Kurt Musa” although he wasn’t the hero of the event.

The second one is that I was not aware of his role in the Armenian Genocide.

Ayda Erbal’s writing once again brought it to the agenda.

I completely agree with the warn she has given.

The lack of "knowledge-negligence" assertion is true.

The unknown part is this;

At the following show, I immediately asked to make a “correction statement”.

If we act more carefully and always keep in mind the names of those who bear heavy responsibilities in horrible massacres, we can avoid these mistakes.

During my meetings with Armenian people, I tell my opinions about this subject before somebody asks me about it.

The revolutionary tradition I come from bears an understanding that interiorizes the "criticism" culture well enough.

If we accept our mistakes, there is no room for "buts" or "ifs".

This process has given the responsibility of being the defender of the rights of all peoples, of all the isolated and ignored people. The

defender of labor and freedom in particular.

It is an historical responsibility to be more careful while acting in conformity with that spirit and honor.