WORLD PRESS FLOODED IN PUBLICATIONS ON ARMENIAN GENOCIDE

AZG Armenian Daily #069, 19/04/2005

Armenian Genocide

Reporters of the international authoritative mass media arrive in
Armenia to highlight the commemoration of 90th anniversary of the
Armenian Genocide. Some of them have already send materials to their
newspapers on the massacres of 1,5 million Armenians committed by the
Ottoman Turkey in the years of the World War I. The leading French,
German, Swiss, Argentinean and other mass media have already covered
the Genocide issue.

The Associated Press has published three large articles on the Armenian
Genocide on April 14. Michael Eckel, reporter, entitled his article
“Armenians Go on Struggling for Recognition of Genocide Even After
90 Years since the Great Genocide.” Eckel told the story of 102 years
old Giulina Mousoyan.

“Armenia used to be a large kingdom that stretched from the Black Sea
to the Caspian, but it was divided in 1915. A part of it was given
to Russia, while the second one was seized by the Ottoman Turkey,”
the AP wrote, telling about the sufferings of the Armenians on their
way to exile and in the Der el-Zor desert.

Luis Mickaelser, another reporter of the Associated Press, wrote from
Ankara about the fight the Turks unfolded against Orhan Pamuk who
dared to openly inform his compatriots that 1 million of Armenians
were killed in the years of the World War I.

“Recently, PM Erdogan and Gul, Turkish foreign minister, touched upon
the issue, obviously hoping that they can hinder the international
recognition of the genocide. Erdogan said that all countries should
open their archives for the researchers, so that the latter can study
whether the events were a genocide or not. Meanwhile, Gul characterized
the statements of the genocide as slander,” Mickaelser wrote and
added:” The Turks fear that the Armenians can use the statements on
the genocide for compensation demanding money or the lost lands.”

Joseph Poghosian prepared the third publication for the AP from
Lebanon. He met with the people that moved to Bekay valley and Egypt
after the heroic battle by the Musa Mountain.

By Tatoul Hakobian