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TURKEY VINDICATES CRIME COMMITTED BY OTTOMAN AUTHORITIES, ARMENIAN PRESIDENT SAYS
March 18, 2015 18:31
President of Armenia Serzh Sargsyan
Photo: Photolure
Yerevan /Mediamax/. President of Armenia Serzh Sargsyan said that
Turkey's policy of denial acquired a "particular manifestation"
this year.
The President stated it addressing "At the Foot of Mount Ararat"
international media forum on March 18.
"We wish we could have also commemorated the Centennial of the Armenian
Genocide together with the Turkish people, thereby heralding a new
haven of the rapprochement of the two nations and normalization of
their relations. This was the goal pursued by the protocols between
Armenia and Turkey signed back in 2009 and of my invitation to the
President Erdogan of Turkey to join us on April 24 in honoring the
memory of the Armenian Genocide victims. Unfortunately, once more
we encountered denial, one that acquired a particular manifestation
this year.
This year Turkish authorities decided to celebrate the 100th
anniversary of the Battle of Gallipoli on the very day of April 24.
The only motive for that was the simple-minded goal to distract the
attention of the international community from the events dedicated
to the Centennial of the Armenian Genocide. By the way, in this
context your Norwegian colleague Bard Larsen published in February an
article titled "Useless Diplomacy," in which he very aptly put that
"this would be tantamount to Germany celebrating heroic victories of
Wehrmacht in the Eastern Front during World War II."
The Turkish policy of denial pursued not only vindicates the crime
committed by the Ottoman authorities - the dispossession of Armenians
- but also sets a dangerous precedent for the recurrence of new
genocides. Their efforts to avoid responsibility or consign the
Armenian Genocide to oblivion can be characterized as continuation
of the crime and encouragement of new genocides.
It is a matter of plain fact that the policy pursued by the current
Turkish government rules out the possibility of bringing the
famous Protocols into life at which official Ankara looked from the
perspective of the absurd preconditions perpetually set forth by it.
For that very reason I decided to recall them from our parliament.
Thus, the process did not reach its logical conclusion, and everybody
knows which party is to blame for its failure. This does not mean that
we are closing the window for rapprochement with Turkey. Nevertheless,
we are not going to get involved in a process, which may fall victim
to the third country's unconstructive whims and, most importantly,
without hope of restoring mutual trust," said the Armenian President.
http://www.mediamax.am/en/news/armeniaturkey/13548/#sthash.yrf8pFvI.dpuf
March 18, 2015 18:31
President of Armenia Serzh Sargsyan
Photo: Photolure
Yerevan /Mediamax/. President of Armenia Serzh Sargsyan said that
Turkey's policy of denial acquired a "particular manifestation"
this year.
The President stated it addressing "At the Foot of Mount Ararat"
international media forum on March 18.
"We wish we could have also commemorated the Centennial of the Armenian
Genocide together with the Turkish people, thereby heralding a new
haven of the rapprochement of the two nations and normalization of
their relations. This was the goal pursued by the protocols between
Armenia and Turkey signed back in 2009 and of my invitation to the
President Erdogan of Turkey to join us on April 24 in honoring the
memory of the Armenian Genocide victims. Unfortunately, once more
we encountered denial, one that acquired a particular manifestation
this year.
This year Turkish authorities decided to celebrate the 100th
anniversary of the Battle of Gallipoli on the very day of April 24.
The only motive for that was the simple-minded goal to distract the
attention of the international community from the events dedicated
to the Centennial of the Armenian Genocide. By the way, in this
context your Norwegian colleague Bard Larsen published in February an
article titled "Useless Diplomacy," in which he very aptly put that
"this would be tantamount to Germany celebrating heroic victories of
Wehrmacht in the Eastern Front during World War II."
The Turkish policy of denial pursued not only vindicates the crime
committed by the Ottoman authorities - the dispossession of Armenians
- but also sets a dangerous precedent for the recurrence of new
genocides. Their efforts to avoid responsibility or consign the
Armenian Genocide to oblivion can be characterized as continuation
of the crime and encouragement of new genocides.
It is a matter of plain fact that the policy pursued by the current
Turkish government rules out the possibility of bringing the
famous Protocols into life at which official Ankara looked from the
perspective of the absurd preconditions perpetually set forth by it.
For that very reason I decided to recall them from our parliament.
Thus, the process did not reach its logical conclusion, and everybody
knows which party is to blame for its failure. This does not mean that
we are closing the window for rapprochement with Turkey. Nevertheless,
we are not going to get involved in a process, which may fall victim
to the third country's unconstructive whims and, most importantly,
without hope of restoring mutual trust," said the Armenian President.
http://www.mediamax.am/en/news/armeniaturkey/13548/#sthash.yrf8pFvI.dpuf