ACCORDING TO TIGRAN KHZMALIAN, TODAY ARMENIA AND ARMENIAN PEOPLE ARE NOT READY FOR OPENING OF ARMENIAN-TURKISH BORDER
Noyan Tapan
Apr 15, 2009
YEREVAN, APRIL 15, NOYAN TAPAN. 20 years after declaring independence
Armenia chose the Turkish development way. Tigran Khzmalian, a film
director, a member of the Miatsum people’s initiative, expressed
such an opinion at the April 15 discussion. According to him, the
evidence of that development is Armenian authorities’ striving for
establishing a police state, fall of population’s spiritual level
"up to the level of a caricature," public’s mania for pursuing a
material profit. According to T.
Khzmalian’s observation, the Armenian youth has also become a bearer
of Turkish values, the evidence of which is their style of getting
dressed and the music they prefer listening to.
T. Khzmalian considers that today Armenia and Armenian people are not
ready for opening of the border. "We should understand it correctly:
we, the participants of this discussion are not against opening the
Armenian-Turkish border, but are concerned with the dangers threatening
us," the film director said.