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TURKEY MUST ACCEPT ITS MISTAKES: EDITOR OF CNN TURK CALLS ON AUTHORITIES
ARMENPRESS
NOVEMBER 22, 2011
ISTANBUL
ISTANBUL, NOBEMBER 22, ARMENPRESS: Turkish journalist, political
commentator and writer Mehmed Ali Birand, who is the editor of CNN
Turk, stated that Turkey must face its history and accept its mistakes.
Armenpress reports that in the article published in Hurriyet Daily
News, Birand mentions that all the countries face the black pages of
their history sooner or later. "We have not spoken of our past openly
up today. It also concerns the Armenian Cause. Rejecting everything,
we only deceive ourselves," he stressed and called on the authorities
not to play any more.
The Turkish commentator thinks that Turkey will not save itself,
insisting that "it was committed by the Ottoman Empire". "The 100th
year of the Armenian events is approaching. If we do not take any
steps, we will not be understood and all the crimes will be put on us.
During his visit to Algeria several years ago Turkish former Prime
Minister Turgut Ozal apologized for the thing that during the French
colonialism period Turkey did not stand up for the liberation fighting
of Algeria. We did not lose because of it, but won. Let's leave aside
the issues of home politics and look at those events from a wider
side of an angle. Let's look at the face of the past," the Turkish
commentator called on the authorities.
ARMENPRESS
NOVEMBER 22, 2011
ISTANBUL
ISTANBUL, NOBEMBER 22, ARMENPRESS: Turkish journalist, political
commentator and writer Mehmed Ali Birand, who is the editor of CNN
Turk, stated that Turkey must face its history and accept its mistakes.
Armenpress reports that in the article published in Hurriyet Daily
News, Birand mentions that all the countries face the black pages of
their history sooner or later. "We have not spoken of our past openly
up today. It also concerns the Armenian Cause. Rejecting everything,
we only deceive ourselves," he stressed and called on the authorities
not to play any more.
The Turkish commentator thinks that Turkey will not save itself,
insisting that "it was committed by the Ottoman Empire". "The 100th
year of the Armenian events is approaching. If we do not take any
steps, we will not be understood and all the crimes will be put on us.
During his visit to Algeria several years ago Turkish former Prime
Minister Turgut Ozal apologized for the thing that during the French
colonialism period Turkey did not stand up for the liberation fighting
of Algeria. We did not lose because of it, but won. Let's leave aside
the issues of home politics and look at those events from a wider
side of an angle. Let's look at the face of the past," the Turkish
commentator called on the authorities.