HAYK DEMOYAN: ESTABLISHMENT OF ARMENIAN-TURKISH COMMISSION OF HISTORIANS WILL ONLY DAMAGE TURKEY’s INTERESTS

Noyan Tapan
Apr 6, 2009

YEREVAN, APRIL 6, NOYAN TAPAN. The International Association of
Genocideologists in the person of its head Greg Stempson sent a
letter to U.S. President Barack Obama the other day calling him for
recognizing the Armenian Genocide. Hayk Demoyan, the Director of the
Museum-Institute of Armenian Genocide, reported at the April 6 press
conference. According to him, that letter is of much importance,
as the above mentioned Association is an authoritative academic
organization consisting of nearly 500 genocideologists.

In response to the question of whether the U.S. President will
pronounce the word "genocide" in his annual April 24 address
H. Demoyan said that up to the present, as long as B. Obama is in
Turkey, the American administration has not determined the address
content yet. However, according to the Museum Director, only the
fact that the superpower’s head touches upon the 1915 events on
every April 24 is already a positive phenomenon. "And there is one
more important circumstance: a person arrived in Turkey on the post
of the U.S. President, who in the past both in the written form and
orally recognized the genocide," H. Demoyan stressed.

Touching upon the rumors on establishing an Armenian-Turkish commission
of historians, he said that we should make the Turks understand that
establishment of such a commission will only damage their interests.

Besides, according to H. Demoyan, it will be good for Turkey if the
discussions on the genocide are moved from the Armenian-Turkish plane
to purely Turkish plane: if Turkish denialists and intellectuals
admitting the fact of genocide argued with each other.

From: Emil Lazarian | Ararat NewsPress