IN OPINION OF TURK HISTORIAN, "IF ARMENIANS WERE NOT EXILED, TURKEY WOULD FACE MORE SERIOUS PROBLEMS TODAY"
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Noyan Tapan
May 13, 2008
ANKARA, MAY 14, ARMENIANS TODAY – NOYAN TAPAN. The Turkish "Kanal-1"
TV channel broadcast the speech of historian Murad Bardakce, who had
recently published one of the diaries of Taleat pasha. In his April
26 speech Murad Bardakce read extracts from an interview with the
widow of Taleat pasha and declared that Armenians did not fulfil the
orders of Taleat and revolted and that there was not a genocide but
a war between two peoples at the beginning of the century.
Murad Bardakce mentioned that exile was not a good thing and at the
same time considered it to be a right solution as, according to him,
if Armenians were not exiled, Turkey would face much more serious
problems today.