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Erdogan Letter to Kocharian Attempts to Mislead International Community
11.10.2005 21:18 GMT+04:00
/PanARMENIAN.Net/ A letter by Turkish PM Recep Tayyip Erdogan to Armenian
President Robert Kocharian is an attempt to mislead the international
community. Armenian Vice-Speaker Vahan Hovhannisyan qualified this way
Turkish party's proposal to form a joint Armenian-Turkish historical
commission to examine the Armenian issue. Mr. Hovhannisyan made his
statement at the NATO PA Rose-Roth seminar held in Yerevan. In his words,
besides the Genocide in 1915 Turkey has committed another crime - this one
against independent Armenia - in 1919 Armenia's territory was equal to 70
thousand square meters. However, resulting from Turkey's aggression Armenia
lost Kars, Ardahan, Surmalu, as well as most of the population in these
regions. In his opinion, the crime was an aggression against another state
and resulted in most problems that cause destabilization in the South
Caucasus today. These problems include issues in the Armenian-Azeri and
Armenian-Turkish relations. Exactly owing to that Armenian President's
return proposal to form an intergovernmental joint commission instead of a
historical one may have more actual outcomes, Vahan Hovhannisyan stated. «I
think that just owing to that the proposal of the Turkish party was not
reciprocated,» he stated. Besides, Mr. Hovhannisyan remarked that the
ideology of repentance and remorse underlying the European values is not
accepted by the Turkish society. «Today Turkey tries to become an EU member
and it should be ready to that from the inside, the Turkish society should
change,» he emphasized.
Erdogan Letter to Kocharian Attempts to Mislead International Community
11.10.2005 21:18 GMT+04:00
/PanARMENIAN.Net/ A letter by Turkish PM Recep Tayyip Erdogan to Armenian
President Robert Kocharian is an attempt to mislead the international
community. Armenian Vice-Speaker Vahan Hovhannisyan qualified this way
Turkish party's proposal to form a joint Armenian-Turkish historical
commission to examine the Armenian issue. Mr. Hovhannisyan made his
statement at the NATO PA Rose-Roth seminar held in Yerevan. In his words,
besides the Genocide in 1915 Turkey has committed another crime - this one
against independent Armenia - in 1919 Armenia's territory was equal to 70
thousand square meters. However, resulting from Turkey's aggression Armenia
lost Kars, Ardahan, Surmalu, as well as most of the population in these
regions. In his opinion, the crime was an aggression against another state
and resulted in most problems that cause destabilization in the South
Caucasus today. These problems include issues in the Armenian-Azeri and
Armenian-Turkish relations. Exactly owing to that Armenian President's
return proposal to form an intergovernmental joint commission instead of a
historical one may have more actual outcomes, Vahan Hovhannisyan stated. «I
think that just owing to that the proposal of the Turkish party was not
reciprocated,» he stated. Besides, Mr. Hovhannisyan remarked that the
ideology of repentance and remorse underlying the European values is not
accepted by the Turkish society. «Today Turkey tries to become an EU member
and it should be ready to that from the inside, the Turkish society should
change,» he emphasized.