OVER 300 TURKISH CITIZENS VISITED GENOCIDE MUSEUM IN YEREVAN
AZG Armenian Daily
10/09/2008
Armenia-Turkey
According to ArmenPress news agency, over 300 citizens of Turkey
have visited the Genocide Museum in Yerevan over the recent few
days. Director of the museum-institute Hayk Demoyan said that the
Turkish visitors were mainly students, representatives of different
organizations and sports fans, who had arrived to watch the football
game.
Hayk Demoyan said that the Turkish visitors had very different feelings
about what they saw in the museum: some were shocked and felt very
painful and sorry about the genocide, and some were unwilling to accept
the facts seriously. Some of the Turks did not watch the exhibition
of the museum till the end, partly because of psychological stress,
and partly for the reason of avoiding reporters.
The latest "Armenian Sports in the Ottoman Empire" exhibition,
started last week in the museum, was of some special interest to
the Turkish visitors. They were completely ignorant of the great
Armenian contribution to the development of sports in Turkey. About
30 newspapers, TV channels and other media prepared different reports
about the Armenian Genocide Museum, and interviewed its director.
It is remarkable that Hasan Jamal, grandson of one of the organizers
of the Armenian Genocide, Jamal Pasha, also visited Yerevan and laid
a wreath at the memorial to the victims of the Armenian Genocide.
From: Baghdasarian