H. DEMOYAN: WE HAVE NO TIME

Panorama.am
16:41 03/09/2008

"Present Turkey will not recognize Armenian Genocide. There are
too many obstacles for it now, because Turkish society experiences
a real dangerous process of memorizing and reviewing of its history
and national identity," the director of Museum Institute of Genocide
Hayk Demoyan said at the press conference.

"They made the problem of genocide a wrong and low quality measure of
self-opposition which now terrifies Turkey from the inside." Demoyan
added.

"Turkey doesn’t care much for material or territorial losses:
the matter is more about moral-psychological decrease coming after
reviewing their history," the speaker said.

As for the creation of Armenian and Turkish historian’s joint
committee, Demoyan said Armenia was always in favor of such
arrangements, "but Turkish specialists should have the courage to
accept the facts that were proved in the result of extensive and
detailed surveys," he added.

"It is out of suspicion, that not only Armenians and Turks have
investigated the Genocide issues, but many foreign specialists as
well. If Turkish historians want to start the case from the very
beginning, sorry, we have no time," Demoyan said.

Mr. Demoyan also spoke about Turkish initiative of creation of
Stability and Security Platform in Caucasus and said that this could
open great opportunities for Armenia. First of all, the alliance
would have positive effect on the opening of Armenia-Turkey roads.

According to Demoyan, the Caucasus Platform of Stability and Security
is of vital significance for Armenia despite the fact that "Turkey’s
initiative on this is a bit untimely."