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    Armenpress

    TURKEY WILL RECOGNIZE THE ARMENIAN GENOCIDE WHEN IT IS A TRULY DEMOCRATIC
    NATION

    LOS ANGELES, APRIL 4, ARMENPRESS: A Turkish historian Taner Akcam,
    prominent outside his native country and controversial at home, told a
    meeting with young Armenians in California, USA, that the government of
    Turkey must radically revise its policies on Cyprus, the Kurdish problem and
    the Armenian genocide, to be looked upon by Europeans as a nation that has
    all rights to join the European Union.
    Akcam was the first Turkish historian to arrive in Yerevan five years ago
    to participate in an international conference dedicated to the 85-th
    anniversary of the Armenian genocide. He also ascended the Tsitsernakaberd
    hill in Yerevan that hosts the Genocide Memorial with researches from other
    countries to pay respect to the victims of the genocide.
    Taner Akcam is among few Turkish scientists for whom the need to
    recognize and learn from the Armenian genocide is as acute now as it was
    when the modern Turkish Republic was founded 80 years ago. His views have
    made him the target of death threats. He argued that Turkey has approached a
    second crucial stage in its nation-building process and if it doesn't learn
    from past mistakes, it is bound to repeat them.
    Equally dangerous, Akcam argued, is the reawakening of revanchist ideas
    among Turkey's military-bureaucratic elites. Coupled together, these
    tendencies could lead to another calamity, he warned.
    Akcam criticized the Turkish government, whose ideology does not
    recognize the presence of Kurdish population and denies the Armenian
    genocide. Akcam is sure that the government and army Generals will never
    agree to officially acknowledge the Armenian genocide. He said this is
    possible only through extensive democratic reforms within the country
    itself.
    "Talking about the Armenian genocide in Turkey is tantamount to
    constantly reminding an ill man, who is trying to hide his disease, about
    his illness. People not only are reluctant to remember their disgraceful
    past, but also do not want others to remind hem about it," he said.
    Akcam explained that Turkey rejects the genocide because Turks lack what
    he called "historical consciousness."
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