ARMENIAN GENOCIDE IS AN OPEN WOUND BUT NOT TOOL OF PRESSURE ON TURKEY
PanARMENIAN.Net
02.05.2007 17:48 GMT+04:00
/PanARMENIAN.Net/ "Turkish Prime Minster Erdogan and his AK party
had the opportunity to put their principles of religious tolerance
and honest government into practice. Instead, they have followed the
traditional nationalist political path of blaming other people and
groups to divert attention from reality," Van Krikorian, Co-chair
of the Turkish Armenian Reconciliation Commission (TARC) said in an
interview with PanARMENIAN.Net.
"The Armenian Genocide is an open wound; we do not talk about it to
harm Turkey. To the contrary, we believe that Turkey needs to come to
terms with its past if it is to be honest with its people and help
them to a better future. Lately, Turkey has called for the creation
of a joint commission to divert attention from dealing honestly with
Turkish Armenian relations.
Yet, we went through the three years Turkish Armenian Reconciliation
Commission process, and Turkey has not implemented the recommendations
to the concerned governments-that failure is what is doing harm to
Turkey," he said.