“TURKS CONDEMNED ARMENIAN GENOCIDE IN 1919”

Panorama.am
14:43 22/04/06

“Time will come when the Turkish people will finally realize the
whole seriousness of the crime their ancestors committed and will
demand that their government should publicly recognize the fact of
Armenian Genocide and apologize to the Armenian people,” the acting
dean the Historical Faculty of Armenian Pedagogical Institute,
doctor of historical sciences Mher karapetyan said in the talk with
our correspondent.

Such an optimistic attitude of the historian has its basis,
i.e. history doesn’t leave any crime against the humanity non-punished,
and moreover the Turks themselves condemned the Young Turks in
1919. “The Turkish Court sentenced those criminals to death, tens
of people were exiled, in a word that fact really exists and it is
stated in historical works,” M.

Karapetyan reminded. As the historian mentions “governments come
and pass, people’s mentality changes, thus one cannot consider
it hopeless that Turkey is not going to recognize the Armenian
Genocide.” /Panorama.am/