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Aghvan Hovsepyan's Sensational Statement
Heirs of victims of the Armenia genocide should receive compensation,
churches and church lands should be returned to the Armenian Church,
Armenia should have its lost territories back, said the prosecutor
general of Armenia Aghvan Hovsepyan.
He said that it is necessary to carry out an international expertise
of international documents relating to the Armenian people and their
territories. We have territorial disputes both with Turkey and
Azerbaijan. It is necessary to work out a package of documents and
submit them to the International Justice Court of the UN, said the
prosecutor general.
This is a sensation. Despite the process of normalization of the
Armenian and Turkish relations started in 2008, Armenia never said
about presenting territorial claims to Turkey, but affirmed it was
ready to accept normalization without preconditions. This approach was
considered inexpedient not only in Armenia and in the Diaspora, but
also within the international community, which was at a loss how
Armenians could speak about normalization without presenting claims to
Turkey.
Today's Turkey was established on historical territories of ethnic
communities, including Armenians. Before the 50th anniversary of the
genocide, in 1968, the Soviet Armenia had never recalled about
genocide, while after independence in 1991, everyone tended not to
voice territorial claims. First president of Armenia Levon
Ter-Petrosyan used to say then that Pan-Turkism had lost its content
as a political factor and that any call for a `crusade' will only turn
it back into itself, making Armenia a target of pan-Turkism and
pan-Islamism.
In his speech at the UN summit in September 2000, second president of
Armenia Robert Kocharyan noted that the `ongoing denial of the
Armenian genocide in Ottoman Empire by modern Turkey strengthens our
aspiration to achieve historical justice'.
So far this has been the highest bar of claims of Armenia. But the
statement of the Armenian prosecutor general passed this threshold:
actually Armenia has officially issued territorial claims to Turkey.
Actually Armenia refuses to fulfill Turkey's demand to surrender some
regions of Karabakh to Azerbaijan in exchange of opening the borders.
If you don't want to open borders, we will choose another way,
Armenians say.
Times are not the best for Turkey's leadership: Kurdish reconciliation
stalled, Assad in Syria is victorious, the Islamist government has
been overthrown in Egypt, some warming is planned between the U.S. and
Iran. Against this background, the territorial claims of Armenia can
be a catalyst for the collapse of Turkey, which has not been able to
become a neo-Ottoman Empire.
Naira Hayrumyan
14:07 05/07/2013
Story from Lragir.am News:
http://www.lragir.am/index/eng/0/comments/view/30378
From: A. Papazian
Heirs of victims of the Armenia genocide should receive compensation,
churches and church lands should be returned to the Armenian Church,
Armenia should have its lost territories back, said the prosecutor
general of Armenia Aghvan Hovsepyan.
He said that it is necessary to carry out an international expertise
of international documents relating to the Armenian people and their
territories. We have territorial disputes both with Turkey and
Azerbaijan. It is necessary to work out a package of documents and
submit them to the International Justice Court of the UN, said the
prosecutor general.
This is a sensation. Despite the process of normalization of the
Armenian and Turkish relations started in 2008, Armenia never said
about presenting territorial claims to Turkey, but affirmed it was
ready to accept normalization without preconditions. This approach was
considered inexpedient not only in Armenia and in the Diaspora, but
also within the international community, which was at a loss how
Armenians could speak about normalization without presenting claims to
Turkey.
Today's Turkey was established on historical territories of ethnic
communities, including Armenians. Before the 50th anniversary of the
genocide, in 1968, the Soviet Armenia had never recalled about
genocide, while after independence in 1991, everyone tended not to
voice territorial claims. First president of Armenia Levon
Ter-Petrosyan used to say then that Pan-Turkism had lost its content
as a political factor and that any call for a `crusade' will only turn
it back into itself, making Armenia a target of pan-Turkism and
pan-Islamism.
In his speech at the UN summit in September 2000, second president of
Armenia Robert Kocharyan noted that the `ongoing denial of the
Armenian genocide in Ottoman Empire by modern Turkey strengthens our
aspiration to achieve historical justice'.
So far this has been the highest bar of claims of Armenia. But the
statement of the Armenian prosecutor general passed this threshold:
actually Armenia has officially issued territorial claims to Turkey.
Actually Armenia refuses to fulfill Turkey's demand to surrender some
regions of Karabakh to Azerbaijan in exchange of opening the borders.
If you don't want to open borders, we will choose another way,
Armenians say.
Times are not the best for Turkey's leadership: Kurdish reconciliation
stalled, Assad in Syria is victorious, the Islamist government has
been overthrown in Egypt, some warming is planned between the U.S. and
Iran. Against this background, the territorial claims of Armenia can
be a catalyst for the collapse of Turkey, which has not been able to
become a neo-Ottoman Empire.
Naira Hayrumyan
14:07 05/07/2013
Story from Lragir.am News:
http://www.lragir.am/index/eng/0/comments/view/30378
From: A. Papazian