Azeri Journalist Asks Armenian People Pardon

PanARMENIAN.Net
22.07.2006 15:25 GMT+04:00

/PanARMENIAN.Net/ Luiza Poghosyan did not call the Genocide a myth. She
merely wanted to say that the myth is the conviction that the Genocide
not being recognized by Turks hampers us in developing relations
with Turkey. This is stated by a letter of Azeri participant of South
Caucasus Alternative Alekper Aliyev, received by PanARMENIAN.Net. As
we reported earlier, Aliyev has somehow distorted the text of the
statement of editor of web-site Luiza Poghosyan
at a six-sided meeting of citizens and NGOs of Armenia, Azerbaijan,
Nagorno Karabakh, Georgia, Abkhazia and South Ossetia, held in Yerevan
July 8-13.

Aliyev interpreted her words as, "The myth on genocide, we are
stuffed with, has become a complex for the Armenian society and made
it sick. We raise our children in hatred towards Turks. In this case
Turks for us are Turkey and Azerbaijan. We are told we won a war,
however, actually our entire region lost, specifically we lost. No
development is observed, nothing good is taking place. How long can
this hatred propaganda last? We cannot work for the future, constantly
thinking retrospectively."

"It turned out that I misunderstood Luiza’s first sentence. Luiza
Poghosyan was saying a totally different thing. I exacted it from my
friends, who participated in that meeting. I ask Armenian people’s
and my friend’s pardon!" Alekper Aliyev writes.