TURKISH JOURNALIST DOES NOT WISH TO BEAR RESPONSIBILITY FOR TALEAT AND ENVER PASHAS ACT
Noyan Tapan News Agency, Armenia
March 5 2007
ISTANBUL, MARCH 5, NOYAN TAPAN – ARMENIANS TODAY. Nations should be
able to face their past. This was the main subject of the congress on
the subject Confrontation with the Past organized by the Heinrich-Boll
Stiftung German Union at Bilgi University of Istanbul.
The congress held with participation of Turkish and foreign scientists
also touched upon assertions on Armenian Genocide and the policy of
denying it.
In particular, Chairman of Diarbekir’s Advocates’ Academy Sezgin
Tandkulo said that facing the past is mixed up with cleaning the
past with a sponge in Turkey. "While, the sponge of the past is dirty
and it should be put aside. But against all this, Turkey has started
facing its past."
Speaker Murad Belge noted that denying the past becomes a reason "for
an individual or public to be connected with the reality with wrong
ties." Denial of Armenian Genocide creates a morbid condition and Hrant
Dink’s murder, in his opinion, is the result of this morbid condition.
And journalist Altan Eoyme demanded that those responsible for the
crime of early 20th century be revealed. "I cannot bear responsibility
for Taleat or Enver Pashas acts all my life," he said.