HISTORY SHOULD BE USED FOR IMPROVING ARMENIAN-TURKISH RELATIONS: OIC SECRETARY GENERAL

ARMINFO News Agency
October 5, 2005

STRASBOURG, OCTOBER 5. ARMINFO. One should not use the history for
fueling hostility and antagonism between the Turks and the Armenians.

One should use history to build up better relations otherwise
neither of the countries will at advantage, Secretary General of the
Organization of the Islamic Conference Ekmelleddin Ihsanoglu says in
a talk with ARMINFO.

He says that the sides should better understand each other. He
reiterates the dogma of the Turkish authorities that there were
many murders both before and after WWI. Investigation will offer no
solution. Everybody suffered and many people died.

Concerning the freedom of speech in Turkey in the light of the recent
Istanbul conference on the Armenian Genocide Ihsanoglu says that there
are many schools of thought in the world but none of them speak of
history and religion as openly as the Turkish one does. The freedom
of speech often gives confused idea of things when people speak of
what they have knowledge but no idea of, says Ihsanoglu noting that
all nations go through the process of reconsideration and reassessment
of some facts of their history.

From: Emil Lazarian | Ararat NewsPress