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`Armenian Question no wild card'
01.07.2015 10:15 SOCIETY
Speaking at a symposium, Archbishop Aram AteÅ?yan, Deputy Patriarch of
Turkey Armenians said `It is high time to stop the Armenian Question
being used across international platforms as a wild card, as the Joker
in a card deck'.
`Symposium on Turkish-Armenian Relations in the 19th-20th Centuries',
organized by the Istanbul Metropolitan Municipality Department of
Cultural and Social Affairs, the Istanbul University Faculty of
Literature, the Istanbul Branch of Türk Ocakları [The `Turkish
Hearths' Association] and the Istanbul University Institute of Atatürk
Principles and History of Turkish Revolution was held at the Cemil
Bilsel Conference Hall.
Describing the `negative events that took place in the sorrowful days
of World War I' as the rupture in the relationship of two children who
had grown up in the same cradle, AteÅ?yan said:
`World War I was not started by the Turks or the Armenians. In the
same way that Armenians were not responsible of the stagnation,
decline and fall of the Ottoman State. However it is a fact that the
debilitation of the authority of the Ottoman State harmed Armenians.'
Referring to the April 24 condolence message President Recep Tayyip
ErdoÄ?an issued during his term as Prime Minister, AteÅ?yan described
the message as `an expression of respect to the memories of Muslim and
non-Muslim Ottoman citizens'.
`Foreign doctors who promise they will cure the disability¦'
AteÅ?yan then went on to say:
`The two children of the Anatolia cradle are disabled today. This
disability must be treated, these two disabled children must walk hand
in hand, and in fact, run towards a healthy future. The doctors that
will treat this disability are the conscientious, foresighted doctors
who respect human rights and are free from prejudice on both the
Turkish and Armenian sides. On the other hand, it is clear that
foreign doctors who promise they will cure the disability and induce
hope in the sides will aggravate the disability rather than heal it.
Particularly, it is impossible to understand how parliaments set aside
their primary task of legislation and assume the role of judge, and
even decision makers on a topic such as history, in which they have no
specialization. We need to ask those parliaments. If what you are
doing is right, then why have you waited a century? And if it is
wrong, why insist on it, why take the wrong as your model? It is high
time to stop the Armenian Question being used across international
platforms as a wild card, as the Joker in a card deck'.
http://www.agos.com.tr/en/article/10164/armenian-question-no-wild-card
From: A. Papazian
01.07.2015 10:15 SOCIETY
Speaking at a symposium, Archbishop Aram AteÅ?yan, Deputy Patriarch of
Turkey Armenians said `It is high time to stop the Armenian Question
being used across international platforms as a wild card, as the Joker
in a card deck'.
`Symposium on Turkish-Armenian Relations in the 19th-20th Centuries',
organized by the Istanbul Metropolitan Municipality Department of
Cultural and Social Affairs, the Istanbul University Faculty of
Literature, the Istanbul Branch of Türk Ocakları [The `Turkish
Hearths' Association] and the Istanbul University Institute of Atatürk
Principles and History of Turkish Revolution was held at the Cemil
Bilsel Conference Hall.
Describing the `negative events that took place in the sorrowful days
of World War I' as the rupture in the relationship of two children who
had grown up in the same cradle, AteÅ?yan said:
`World War I was not started by the Turks or the Armenians. In the
same way that Armenians were not responsible of the stagnation,
decline and fall of the Ottoman State. However it is a fact that the
debilitation of the authority of the Ottoman State harmed Armenians.'
Referring to the April 24 condolence message President Recep Tayyip
ErdoÄ?an issued during his term as Prime Minister, AteÅ?yan described
the message as `an expression of respect to the memories of Muslim and
non-Muslim Ottoman citizens'.
`Foreign doctors who promise they will cure the disability¦'
AteÅ?yan then went on to say:
`The two children of the Anatolia cradle are disabled today. This
disability must be treated, these two disabled children must walk hand
in hand, and in fact, run towards a healthy future. The doctors that
will treat this disability are the conscientious, foresighted doctors
who respect human rights and are free from prejudice on both the
Turkish and Armenian sides. On the other hand, it is clear that
foreign doctors who promise they will cure the disability and induce
hope in the sides will aggravate the disability rather than heal it.
Particularly, it is impossible to understand how parliaments set aside
their primary task of legislation and assume the role of judge, and
even decision makers on a topic such as history, in which they have no
specialization. We need to ask those parliaments. If what you are
doing is right, then why have you waited a century? And if it is
wrong, why insist on it, why take the wrong as your model? It is high
time to stop the Armenian Question being used across international
platforms as a wild card, as the Joker in a card deck'.
http://www.agos.com.tr/en/article/10164/armenian-question-no-wild-card
From: A. Papazian