TURKISH INTELLECTUALS WHO APOLOGIZED FOR ARMENIAN GENOCIDE RECEIVE THREATS

PanARMENIAN.Net
10.12.2008 17:26 GMT+04:00

/PanARMENIAN.Net/ Employees of Agos Armenian-Turkish bilingual
newspaper are well acquainted with the Turkish intellectuals, who
apologized for the Armenian Genocide, said the editor of the Armenian
sector of Agos.

"Media somehow obtained the statement that was supposed to be
promulgated on January 1, 2009. Nevertheless, they will continue
their action," Bagrat Estukyan told a news conference in Yerevan today.

"These people present their personal viewpoint of the problem and do
not impose it on anyone," he said.

Mr. Estukyan informed that several days after the publication of their
letter, the intellectuals started receiving threats and offending
messages.

A group of Turkish intellectuals have apologized for the "great
disaster that Ottoman Armenians suffered in 1915."

Professors Baskan Oran and Ahmet Insel, journalists Ali Bayramoglu
and Cengiz Aktar personally apologized for the 1915 events.

The group is asking other people to sign the petition, which reads
as follows: "I cannot conscientiously accept the indifference to
the great disaster that Ottoman Armenians suffered in 1915, and its
denial. I reject this injustice and acting of my own will, I share
the feelings and pains of my Armenian brothers and sisters, and I
apologize to them."

The campaign initiators have underlined that first they will collect
signatures from intellectuals and they will then open a secure website
to collect signatures.