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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
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