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FAMOUS TURKISH BUSINESSMAN CALLS TO ACKNOWLEDGE ARMENIAN GENOCIDE
yerkir.am
12:55 - 19.01.2012
Influential Turkish businessman of Jewish origin, president of Alarko
holding Isaac Alaton sent a letter to "Economic and Social research in
Turkey" (TESEV) fund calling to make efforts for the acknowledgement
of the Armenian Genocide by Ankara.
Turkish paper Radical presents the letter.
"Dear friends, there are still 3 years left until 2015, but those
years pass without any change... April 24, 2015, approaches so let
us change our denial policy. It is a shame...I am tired of the fear
of facing the past. Let us be loud. Our duty to our coming generation
is to provide for them respect towards our country and society.
For 90 years we have committed many sins. We have filled closets with
skeletons and locked the door. For 90 years we announce the world to
be blind and we are afraid of going one on one. We have been taught
to be afraid. Skeletons rot in the closets and their stink is already
unbearable. I can't breathe, can you? I was jealous of the Bulgarian
diplomats who confessed having treated the Turks badly.
Let us also raise our voice to be heard by our diplomats. And the
diplomats should make their voices to be heard by party leaders. Let
them help us open our closets full of skeletons. After their funeral
we will honor their memory in a minute of silence and then we will
be freed of our sins.
'A just man should not put his sins on his son's shoulders,' my
philosophy teacher said. I am looking for respect. I give respect
great importance. Help me.
With respect,
Isaac Alaton," the letter reads.
yerkir.am
12:55 - 19.01.2012
Influential Turkish businessman of Jewish origin, president of Alarko
holding Isaac Alaton sent a letter to "Economic and Social research in
Turkey" (TESEV) fund calling to make efforts for the acknowledgement
of the Armenian Genocide by Ankara.
Turkish paper Radical presents the letter.
"Dear friends, there are still 3 years left until 2015, but those
years pass without any change... April 24, 2015, approaches so let
us change our denial policy. It is a shame...I am tired of the fear
of facing the past. Let us be loud. Our duty to our coming generation
is to provide for them respect towards our country and society.
For 90 years we have committed many sins. We have filled closets with
skeletons and locked the door. For 90 years we announce the world to
be blind and we are afraid of going one on one. We have been taught
to be afraid. Skeletons rot in the closets and their stink is already
unbearable. I can't breathe, can you? I was jealous of the Bulgarian
diplomats who confessed having treated the Turks badly.
Let us also raise our voice to be heard by our diplomats. And the
diplomats should make their voices to be heard by party leaders. Let
them help us open our closets full of skeletons. After their funeral
we will honor their memory in a minute of silence and then we will
be freed of our sins.
'A just man should not put his sins on his son's shoulders,' my
philosophy teacher said. I am looking for respect. I give respect
great importance. Help me.
With respect,
Isaac Alaton," the letter reads.