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Armen Darbinyan: «We Want Turks to Become Better»
27.10.2006 16:26 GMT+04:00

/PanARMENIAN.Net/ «I suppose we are «exploiting» the
fact of the Armenian Genocide very lubberly. Maybe, we
have the task now, which is fulfilled to a certain
degree – to make Turkey and Turks recognize their
responsibility for that bloody action in their
history. Make them, put pressure upon them, make them
understand and only then go further,» Rector of the
Russian-Armenian (Slavonic) University, former PM of
Armenia Armen Darbinyan stated at the University
October 27. «Judging from our policy, we want Turks to
become better. This is my assessment of our actions,»
Darbinyan remarked. «Our urge to worldwide recognition
of the fact of the Genocide resulted in recognition of
the Armenian Genocide and Turkey’s need to apologize
to us by 22 countries. What does apologize mean? Only
strong ones apologize. Germans apologized for the
Holocaust to the Jews publicly and adopted a law,
criminalizing denial of the Jewish Genocide on the
part of German citizens.

«Turks are not ready to apologize to us. We want to
press on them and make them purer, better, more noble,
but we will not manage by default, as they are not
ready to it. Maybe, by recognition of the Genocide we
make closer a date, when they will be ready to realize
what they have committed – but we speak not of
ourselves, but Turks. Thus, we make actions, put them
in the center of our international policy – actions,
which finally should result in improvement and
ennoblement of Turks. Maybe, it is a good task, but I
believe we have more important ones… We have the task
to ennoble ourselves. This is a task we have to solve
– otherwise the loss we have suffered will remain
unrequited,» the former PM of Armenia said, reports IA Regnum.