CONFERENCE ON THEME "TURKISH-ARMENIAN RELATIONS AND TERRORISM" HELD IN
LONDON

LONDON, JANUARY 30, NOYAN TAPAN – ARMENIANS TODAY. A conference on the
theme "Turkish-Armenian Relations and Terrorism" took place at the
famous Royal Lecture Theater auditorium of the London Royal College on
January 26. The conference was organized by the "Federation of Turkish
Associations of London."

Tatevik Grigorian, the Chairwoman of the Union of Armenians of the
London School of Economics and Political Sciences was also invited to
this conference. She presented details about that conference to Noyan
Tapan.

As T.Grigorian mentioned, Turks make similar speeches at different
auditoriums. Invited lecturers Professor Turkkaya Ataov (theme:
"Influence of Armenian Terrorism on Ottaman Empire"), Assistant to
Professor Orhan Cekic (theme: "History of Terrorism against Turk
Diplomates in Our Days) and Professor Norman Stone (theme:
"Armenian-Turkish Relations Today and in Nearest Future) made speeches
on that day. A Azeri professor named Golam-Reza Sabri-Tabriz also made
a short speech at the conference. The theme was "Karabakh Conflict."
Photos of Turk diplomates killed by Armenian avengers were displayed
at the lecture hall. The speeches were in general downright statements
and swearings, without historic facts, the idea of the genocide was
mainly mocked, considering it baseless.

The first performer, Ataov addressed many times to the auditorium with
a question that "on the occasion of Hrant Dink’s murder Turks went out
to street, by stating that "we are Armenians," and where the Armenians
were when Turkish diplomates were killed," why they did not come out
to street to shout that "we are all Turks." Wasn’t Turkey the first
country in the world that allowed Armenians to get officially
registered as a community when their church separated from the Roman
church and the Armenians were given possibility to have a Catholicos?
In Ataov’s words, "Armenians continuously subjected Turks to terrorism
in Balkans and as a result of it, about five million of Turks were
annihilated in Balkans." Especially awful aspersions were heard in
Scot Norman Stone’s speech. He stated that "There were more than three
million of Armenians in the Soviet Union, and there is not even one
and half million of them in Armenia. That’s, Armenians damaged
themselves more than Young Turks did it ever during the history. What
do they demand then from Turks? More, more than 100 thousand of
Armenians illegally work in today’s Turkey. Thus, Armenians have no
possibility of living in Armenia and again run to Turkey to save
themselves. It is impossible to live in Armenia, and they have no
problem of living and working in Turkey. Today’s Armenia has no future
without Turkey, more, being surrounded by enemies from all sides, it
can not live without Turkey and has a short life."

In Stone’s words, the greatest misfortune of Armenia is Diaspora,
especially the American Diaspora. The latters do not speak Armenian,
are not acquainted with their culture, do not know history at all, are
acquainted only with cult worship of money, eat at McDonalds’, grow
fat like Americans and are idiots like them. They attempt to keep
their nationality for some understandable senseless reasons but money
and profit is on the back of everything," Stone assures and states:
"if Diasporan Armenians are sure that a genocide happened, why they do
not even make an attempt to address with this issue to the
international court and solve it once and for all. Let them bring the
facts and prove. They do not do as they know well that no just court
will affirm their falsifications. I have continuously read about the
Armenian genocide and have never found any serious evidence that it
happened. Armenian sources are not at all ones to read and are not
objective, they only contain cheap feelings and dramatic,
heart-breaking stories. For example, the "Burning Tigris" novel. This
is a book which must be read with a dramatic-mocking voice. The source
of the genocide infection is Diaspora, and the sooner the Armenians of
Armenia separate from the poison spread by Diaspora the sooner they
will get better. All their misfortunes come from Diaspora.

At the end the Azeri lecturer (Sabri-Tabrizi) added to what he said
that the main reason for the Armenians’ misfortune is its being a
slave of Russia as the misfortunes of the region come from Russia. He
stated that the Turks and Azeris live in one country, simply have
different governments and everything that Turks do against Armenians,
coincide with the Azeris’ interests. He asked the Turks not to forget
that one million of Azeri refugees waits for the lost country of
Karabakh for which eberybody must struggle.