SAFRASTIAN: NOTHING INIDICATES THAT TURKEY IS GOING TO CHANGE ITS POSITION OVER GENOCIDE

Yerkir
28.08.2007 16:01

YEREVAN (YERKIR) – "Taking into account the recent changes in Turkey,
one should not rule out the possibility that Turkey may slightly soften
its position towards Armenia in political issues," Ruben Safrastyan,
the director of Oriental Studies at the Armenian Academy of Sciences,
has said, according to Noyan Tapan news agency. "But there is no
indication that Turkey will change its denialist policy towards the
Armenian Genocide."

He said that said the shutting of the Armenian-Turkish border by that
country is part of its policies towards Armenia.

Safrastian also said that Kemalist and Islamist forces in Turkey have
come to and agreement, which will result in Abdullah Gul’s victory
in the presidential election.

He added that Turkey’s Armenian community has voted for the Justice
and Development party hoping that it would take specific steps to
ease the ethnic and religious conditions of minorities. He said that
the Armenian community’s stance is not ungrounded since that party
has been working towards Turkey’s membership in the European Union.

From: Emil Lazarian | Ararat NewsPress