Armenian delegates mentioned Armenian Genocide in Turkey

23.06.2005 19:03

YEREVAN (YERKIR) – Ninety years after the Armenian Genocide, the
members of the ARF’s Youth Organization spoke openly about the
Genocide and even distributed booklets, Zinavor Meghrian and Karen
Mnatsakanian, members of the Youth Organization delegation to
International Union of Socialist Youth (IUSY) meeting in Istanbul,
told a news conference on Thursday in Yerevan.

On June 16-19, the delegation was participating in the IUSY Black Sea
Area Cooperation meeting, titled “We all are Minorities” and held in
Istanbul, Turkey, attended also by delegations from Georgia, Russia,
Ukraine, Azerbaijan, Turkey, Bulgaria, Moldova, Serbia, Sweden and
other countries.

The Armenian delegates also were interviewed by the Turkish newspaper
Milliyet. “We discussed the Armenian Genocide from different aspects
during the interview,” Meghrian told the news conference. “We also
spoke of the closed borders and formation of a group of historians,
which we refuse since we have no doubts about the fact of the
Genocide.”

In his turn, Mnatsakanian mentioned that the Turkish youth wrongly
belive the Armenian government is not raising the Genocide issue and
that it is only the Diaspora that is interested in it. “It is because
some young Armenian politicians make such statements,” he said. When
asked to name those politicians, Mnatsakanian said he was referring to
Sargis Asatrian, the chairman of the Armenian Youth Party.