Turkish Daily News
Oct 19 2006
>>From the columns
Thursday, October 19, 2006
Hot contact with the diaspora:
Zaman, Mehmet Kamýþ: The Armenian question is being brought before
Turkey at every opportunity. A group of people all over the world —
in France, America and Lebanon — hate Turkey and wish only bad
things for it. This hatred has been fostered not by those who were
deported but rather by the generations that followed. The migration
of Armenians, an Eastern Christian society, to Western countries
after World War I played a huge role in this Armenian transformation.
This is the 90th anniversary of that forced deportation. States that
were at each other’s throats only 60 years ago are today united under
one roof. Nobody feuds anymore. The significance of Turkey’s World
War I incident with the Armenians is growing on a daily basis. Each
time this problem confronts us in a different country. To manage
this, Turkey should change its policy and establish close contact
with the Armenian diaspora. Civilians, rather than the state, should
put more effort into solving this problem. We need to sit down with
them and talk a little bit about Fenerbahce. Eat sarma with them, put
jewelry on the bride at weddings. In short, we should remember that
we are similar nations emotionally; we eat the same foods and sing
the same folk songs.
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From: Emil Lazarian | Ararat NewsPress
