Globe and Mail, Canada
May 12 2006
The bonds of history
GUNES N. EGE
Toronto — No one denies that Turkish Armenians were tragically
affected by events unfolding during the First World War in which they
were, together with the Russians, undeniably the aggressors. But the
Armenians have yet to admit that the same events killed, brutalized
and displaced hundreds of thousands of Turkish soldiers and
civilians.
It would have been laudable if Prime Minister Stephen Harper could
have taken the lead in creating a non-partisan forum in which both
sides would bring to the table all documents pertaining to the events
that took place within the Ottoman Empire between 1915 and 1923. That
would have been constructive and instructive and, ultimately, would
have defused the dispute.