Pan Armenian News

ACKNOWLEDGEMENT OF GENOCIDE POSSIBLE ONLY HAVING REALIZED ITS CAUSES

24.05.2005 06:14

/PanARMENIAN.Net/ Unless the Turkish society realizes and gets to know the
causes and consequences of the events of 1915, it will not be able to
acknowledge the Armenian Genocide. Stated Editor-in-Chief of Agos Turkish
journal Hrant Dink, when commenting on the holding of Ottoman Armenians in
Period of Collapse of the Empire: questions of scientific policy and
democracy conference in Istanbul, reported the Yerkir newspaper. In his
words, before the 20-es of the past century there was no taboo in Turkey on
the discussion of the Armenian issue, moreover, monuments to Genocide
victims were erected. However, since 1923, when people, who had committed
the Armenian Genocide, started `penetrating’ into the ruling elite of
Turkey, the discussion of the issues of the Armenian Genocide was banned.
Moreover, pensions were assigned to those charged for committing the
Armenian Genocide and the Turks killed. As noted by Dink, the Turkish people
thought for a rather long period of time that the Armenian issue is long ago
solved by the Treaty of Lausanne. The journal editor noted that the fact
that only 50-60 thousand Armenians live in Turkey today is an outcome of
Turkey’s brutal policy regarding national minorities. Answering the question
why Turks decided to exterminate the Armenian population he said that the
world wanted to return the indigene Armenians to the territories inhabited
by them, but the Young Turks decided to massacre Armenians to avoid it and
to leave the issue out of the agenda. As of the statements made in Turkey
that Armenians exterminated Turks, these are consequences of the wide-scale
genocide. Such actions were committed by revenge groups of Armenian, who had
lost their relatives.