TURKEY TO RECOGNIZE GENOCIDE IN 9 YEARS

Panorama.am
16:00 24/04/06

The president of pan-Armenian compatriotic union “Yerevan and
Yerevanians” Yeghia Shamshyan is sure that Turkey will have recognized
the criminal action it carried out at the beginning of the century
by the 100th anniversary of the Great Armenian Genocide. “If such
humanistic countries as France, Germany and Russia have recognized
the fact of the genocide, then Turkey will also have to do the same
to remove the blemish from the nation,” Y. Shamshyan says.

The president of “Orran” (Cradle) charity organization Armenuhi
Hovhannisyan also thinks that her contemporaries will face the day when
Turkey will admit the fact of the Genocide. “I have learned about the
great massacre from the stories of my grandmothers and grandfathers
full of tears. And today I come to pay a tribute of respect to the
memory of millions of our compatriots. I come here with a kind of sad
feeling but in the meantime I swear to myself that I must be able to
bring up a generation which will be sure that those dark days of our
nation must never repeat again.”