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TURKISH WRITER CONSIDERS ARMENIAN GIRLS BEAUTIFUL AND ARMENIANS GOOD NATION
10:06, 19 April, 2013
YEREVAN, APRIL 19, ARMENPRESS: The Armenian-Turkish cultural relations
continue registering some progress, notwithstanding the suspension
of the regulation of the political relations. The intellectuals of
the two countries keep making visits to Armenia and Turkey.
The Turkish writer Ataol Behramoglu arrived in Armenia to participate
in the Poetry Festival, held in the framework of the program "Yerevan
World Book Capital". The Armenpress correspondent interviewed him,
getting detailed information about the writer's impressions about
Armenia.
- Mr. Behramoglu, you have arrived in Armenia to participate in the
Poetry Festival. How do you feel here and what impressions do you have?
- I feel very well here and my impressions are positive. I congratulate
the Armenian Writers' Union for the organization of such initiative,
which is very important. I am happy as well that I was able to
plant a tree in the Poetry Park established in the framework of the
Festival. Everything is quite well.
- How do you evaluate the current level of the relations between the
Armenian and Turkish writers?
- We can't say that our relations are close but it should be noted
as well that we know and feel each other. I think that we should know
each other better and be closer, as we have many similarities in the
fields of history, culture and geography. We cannot live so far from
each other. But I am an optimist and I think that everything will be
fine. I am happy that being a Turkish writer, I have been invited
here, notwithstanding all the difficulties. There are not everyday
flights from Istanbul to Yerevan but I managed to come.
- You are in Armenia for the first time. What did amaze or interest
you much?
- I have been in Yerevan for the first time, right. The girls are very
beautiful here and the Armenians are a very good nation. I have very
many Armenian friends in Istanbul, who are very good and close to me.
That is why this circumstance does not amaze me, I know these people.
I do not have the feeling of a foreigner in Armenia.
- Do you want to return here?
- By all means. I wish that the visits of the intellectuals of
the two countries would become more often and the people know each
other better.
- The participants of the International Poetry Festival visited the
Tsitsernakaberd Memorial, built in the memory of the victims fell in
the Armenian Genocide. Did you go with them as well?
- No, I have not, because I arrived in Yerevan after dinner. It is
very hard for me to talk about it. Historians should speak of it more
objectively and all the nations should accept that such tragedies
have happened in the history.
- Nevertheless, the Turkish Leadership continues its denial policy...
- I think that in the entire world there are political issues to
be resolved.
10:06, 19 April, 2013
YEREVAN, APRIL 19, ARMENPRESS: The Armenian-Turkish cultural relations
continue registering some progress, notwithstanding the suspension
of the regulation of the political relations. The intellectuals of
the two countries keep making visits to Armenia and Turkey.
The Turkish writer Ataol Behramoglu arrived in Armenia to participate
in the Poetry Festival, held in the framework of the program "Yerevan
World Book Capital". The Armenpress correspondent interviewed him,
getting detailed information about the writer's impressions about
Armenia.
- Mr. Behramoglu, you have arrived in Armenia to participate in the
Poetry Festival. How do you feel here and what impressions do you have?
- I feel very well here and my impressions are positive. I congratulate
the Armenian Writers' Union for the organization of such initiative,
which is very important. I am happy as well that I was able to
plant a tree in the Poetry Park established in the framework of the
Festival. Everything is quite well.
- How do you evaluate the current level of the relations between the
Armenian and Turkish writers?
- We can't say that our relations are close but it should be noted
as well that we know and feel each other. I think that we should know
each other better and be closer, as we have many similarities in the
fields of history, culture and geography. We cannot live so far from
each other. But I am an optimist and I think that everything will be
fine. I am happy that being a Turkish writer, I have been invited
here, notwithstanding all the difficulties. There are not everyday
flights from Istanbul to Yerevan but I managed to come.
- You are in Armenia for the first time. What did amaze or interest
you much?
- I have been in Yerevan for the first time, right. The girls are very
beautiful here and the Armenians are a very good nation. I have very
many Armenian friends in Istanbul, who are very good and close to me.
That is why this circumstance does not amaze me, I know these people.
I do not have the feeling of a foreigner in Armenia.
- Do you want to return here?
- By all means. I wish that the visits of the intellectuals of
the two countries would become more often and the people know each
other better.
- The participants of the International Poetry Festival visited the
Tsitsernakaberd Memorial, built in the memory of the victims fell in
the Armenian Genocide. Did you go with them as well?
- No, I have not, because I arrived in Yerevan after dinner. It is
very hard for me to talk about it. Historians should speak of it more
objectively and all the nations should accept that such tragedies
have happened in the history.
- Nevertheless, the Turkish Leadership continues its denial policy...
- I think that in the entire world there are political issues to
be resolved.