ARMENIAN INTELLECTUALS CALL ABDULLAH GUL FOR RECOGNIZING FACT OF ARMENIAN GENOCIDE

Noyan Tapan

Dec 9, 2008

YEREVAN, DECEMBER 9, NOYAN TAPAN. Over thirty Armenian intellectuals
have sent an open letter to Turkish President Abdullah Gul calling him
for admitting the fact of Armenian Genocide. "Our two peoples’ historic
memory is very deep and disturbed, there are no easy solutions. Your
generation of Turkey’s leadership should admit the irrefutable truth
and recognize the fact of Armenian Genocide," the letter read. Giving
assurance that it is the Turkish people that first of all needs the
recognition of the Genocide, the letter authors mention: "Thus it
(the Turkish people) will be get free of the burden of history and
will stand near the other states open-faced."

At the end of the letter Armenian intellectuals stated that A. Gul’s
visit and Turkey’s initiative aimed at strengthening the general
stability in the South Caucasus are reassuring. "However these efforts
can go to ruin easily unless the state takes resolute steps," the
letter read. USSR People’s Artist Sos Sargsian, composers Robert
Amirkhanian and Edward Mirzoyan, solo singer Hasmik Hatsagortsian,
Aravot daily’s editor Aram Abrahamian, and others have signed under
the letter.