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Turkey found itself in a tight corner, not mentioning
the presidential elections
The more Ankara speaks against the recognition of the
Armenian Genocide, the more countries and
organizations are interested in real facts.
12.04.2007 GMT+04:00
Most likely Turkey is being through one of its hardest
times. Exacerbations of the situation with Kurds on the border with
Northern Iraq and presidential elections to be held on April 22 are
very untimely for Turkey to face, taking into account that at present
Turkey has to find methods of fighting against passing Resolution N
106 about the recognition of the Armenian Genocide too. In the issue
of the recognition of the Armenian Genocide, Turkish government seems
to be ready to use any means to prevent not only the recognition of
the Genocide but also its mentioning at all.
/PanARMENIAN.Net/ The story of closing the exhibition in UN, which was
dedicated to the Genocide in Rwanda, became a disgrace not only for
Turkey or UN itself but a slap on the face of the whole civilized
world too. `Turkish government’s attempts to conceal the history from
own nation wasn’t enough. At present campaigns against the recognition
of the Genocide has gone so far, that the initiative of opening an
exhibition on Genocide with the title: `Lessons Learned in Rwanda’ is
being considered,’ announced the Armenian Minister of Foreign Affairs
Vartan Oskanyan regarding the postponement of the dates of the
exhibition dedicated to the Genocide in Rwanda, which was to be
organized in UN headquarters. One may only guess what brought the
Organization to this decision, but the fact that UN backs out more and
more of its principles adopted in 1945, is beyond doubts. The world
has certainly changed in 60 years, but not so much as to obey the
country having perpetrated a massacre. The nuance Turkey fails to
notice is that the more it speaks against the recognition of the
Armenian Genocide, the more countries and organizations are interested
in real facts. Consequently, the truth which the Turkish government is
trying to deny so persistently is being revealed by the actions of the
same government. Turkish Ministry of Foreign Affairs, which spends
great sum of money for campaigning against the recognition of the
Armenian Genocide, hardly expects such results.
As for Kurdish issue, here Turkey is in a much more difficult
situation. No matter how stubbornly Turkey tries to prove that Kurds
are terrorists and separatists, and possibly there is some truth in
these qualifications, the Kurdish Labor Party indeed can make troubles
for the Turkish government. On April 9 Turkey sent a note to Iraqi
authorities, which called to take decisive measures to resist Kurdish
Labor Party and recognize it as a terrorist organization. `Turkey is
about to lose its patience for the increasing number of terrorist
attacks organized by the Party militants, having their bases in
Northern Iraq. If the Iraqi authorities do not take decisive steps to
counteract terror, Turkey may apply to the rights given to Turkey by
the international law regarding terror response,’ was mentioned in the
note. The leader of the Iraqi Kurds Masud Barzani promised in answer,
that if the Turkish Army launches an operation in Northern Iraq, his
militants will start work actively in Turkey’s territory. In answer to
this threat Turkish Prime-Minister Erdoghan advised Barzani `to be
more careful with his words and not to utter words which will later be
difficult to be responsible for.’ Abdullah Gul in its turn made a
phone call to Condoleezza Rice and called the US Secretary of State to
condemn Barzani’s announcement. It is not very difficult to guess how
all this will end; Turkey will enter Northern Iraq with the excuse of
finding and annihilating terrorists, Kurds will start organizing
explosions in Turkish towns, particularly in Istanbul and Ankara, and
plane hijackings will be organized just as it happened the other
day. In short the whole story has a 30-year-old history, and doesn’t
seem to be coming to an end. Turkey will never give away the territory
under the control of Kurdish autonomy, though it can be fulfilled by
Iraq with the assistance of Iran, and just another unrecognized state
of `Iranian Kurdistan’, which will have its share of tension in the
already troubled region, will appear on the world map. As for Turkey
itself, it will be used as a tool in the realization of these plans.
«PanARMENIAN.Net» analytical department