ARMENIAN DIASPORA DANGEROUS FOR TURKEY, TURKISH HISTORIAN CONSIDERS
PanArmenian News Network
July 18 2005
18.07.2005 06:08
/PanARMENIAN.Net/ There is no political pressure on the discussion of
the Armenian issue, Professor Hikmet Ozdemir, head of the Armenian
Studies Department at the Turkish Union of Historians stated when
asked why the open discussion of the Armenian issue is under political
pressure, Die Welt reports. When commenting on the negative statements
by Turkish Foreign Minister on the Armenian Genocide Conference
in Istanbul Ozdemir noted that no one forced the initiators to
cancel the conference. In his words, Turkey refrained from the
discussions of the Armenian issue due to the unwillingness to reopen
old wounds. “The Armenian Diaspora has convinced the whole world in
the thesis of Genocide and this prejudice can have grave consequences
for Turkey. We urge international discussion of the issue. We have
opened our archives. We request all other participants of the First
World War to produce the documents they possess”, Ozdemir stated.
From: Emil Lazarian | Ararat NewsPress