TURKISH PRESS RESPONDS TO PRESIDENT SARKISIAN’S ARTICLE
AZG Armenian Daily
12/07/2008
Armenia-Turkey
The Turkish press keeps an attentive eye upon President Serge
Sarkisian’s statements regarding the Armenian-Turkish relations. After
commenting on the Armenian Presodent’s June 23 speech in Moscow,
the Turkish newspapers proceeded to his article published in July 9
in the Wall Street Journal.
The Wall Street Journal is the mouthpiece of the "Neo-conservators",
who order the activities of Washington, therefore articles are
published in that magazine by chance.
Surely, this fact is known to the Turks. That is why the "Radikal"
newspaper published the Turkish translation of the article on July
10. On the very same day "Eni Safak" and "Vatan" published comments
on the article, and "Sabah" a day later.
When speaking about President Sarkisian’s article, the Turkish
journalists are most of all interested in the statements regarding
the joint Armenian-Turkish commission.
Most probably, the President of Armenia saying that "establishment of
normal relations will permit us to create a joint commission in order
to study all the complicated matters concerning Armenia and Turkey",
meant an intergovernmental commission, not a scientific one. Even
in 2005 when Erdogan suggested establishing a joint commission of
historians, Robert Kocharian answered with proposition of creating an
intergovernmental commission after diplomatic relations start between
Armenia and Turkey.
In case of establishing an intergovernmental commission, the sides will
be able to consider such matters as the international recognition of
the Armenian Genocide, the inconsistence of Turkish negationism, or the
elimination of the consequences of the Genocide. This are political,
not historical issues, therefore their discussion cannot provoke any
doubt regarding the truthfulness of the fact of the Armenian Genocide.