YOUR COUNTRY AND YOUR PEOPLE WILL ONLY BENEFIT FROM IT
Razmik Davoyan
Hayots Ashkharh Daily
Oct 23 2007
Armenia
Open letter to the Prime Minister of the Republic of Turkey Rejeb
Tayb Erdoghan.
Dear Prime Minister, The reason I’m sending you this letter is as
clear and lucid as a transparent day, not only for us – Armenians
and for you – Turks, but luckily for the majority of the people in
the world and it is an undeniable fact. It is about the displacement
of Armenians from our forefathers’ motherland and the annihilation
of more than 1,5 million Armenians by the Ottoman Empire in 1915,
which is a typical genocide.
Your government is making senseless efforts to find softer expressions
to qualify this genocide or even to completely deny it.
But it is also an undeniable fact.
I’m not the champion of new evidences, especially because they stir
the bloody memory of our people, and it is not the main topic of
my conversation with You. I have already had the chance to listen
to Your speeches on TV, I have attentively followed Your conduct,
and I’m sure You are a really civilized personality, conforming to
the European criteria of human civilization. All this served as a
guarantee for me to speak with You with a simple and sincere language,
the way my ancestors used to communicate with their Turkish friends
before that terrible phenomenon.
I also know that the question that troubles me, also troubles the
majority of Turkish people, particularly those who are honest and are
concerned about the future of their country, a considerable number
of intellectuals, state officials, whom You know well enough, those
who are waiting for Your answer like me.
And the question is as follows.
Do you want to be the inheritors of the crime conducted by a group
of fanatic leaders of Ottoman Empire, the notorious inheritors of
which became the much more fanatic young Turks, due to which the
coming generation of the Turks are facing the responsibility for
their heinous crime? Can this heritage guarantee a future for the
people like Turks, who strive for a dignified life, I ask You?
When You speak, Your speech sounds confident, in general, with
a determination appropriate for a leader. But when the point comes
to the genocide, Your speech becomes uncertain and wavering, false
and fake emphases appear. It immediately becomes clear that Your
expressions have nothing to do with Your internal beliefs and that
you yield to the demands of the fanatic chauvinists, to leave the
Turks in the debt of blood forever. Over again I ask You, "Is it
possible"? Especially towards the people who have made your country
prosperous, who have always been good to you?
The time, dear Prime Minister, has made this issue ripen for You and
for You power.
Don’t deny the desire and the opportunity of the Turkish people to
get rid of their sins.
Don’t deprive Yourself of becoming the idol of Turkish democracy and
purifying the Turkish people of their sins.
Your country and your people will only benefit from it.
Do you think Germany lost something by recognizing the Genocide of the
Jews? Of course no! Germany announced to the world and first of all
to their people that they refuse to be the inheritors of the criminal
Nazism and the bearer of that ideology and policy, thus strengthening
the German country, German viability and will.
What the followers do as compensation for the crime their ancestors
have conducted is just an insignificant prayer on their way to purify
themselves from the sins. You pray to your Allah three times a day. It
will be Your most sacred prayer.
I wish welfare and peace to Turkish people.