WILL TURKEY RECOGNIZE THE ARMENIAN GENOCIDE?

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06:43 pm | April 23, 2009 | society

This year marks 94 years since the Turkish authorities perpetrated
a genocide that led to the killing of 1.5 million Armenians.

"Turkey will never recognize the Armenian Genocide. If it hasn’t
recognized it until now, it will never do it," told the majority
people to "A1+".

"A1+" conducted a series of small surveys from citizens to find
out their opinions on the possible developments of Turkish-Armenian
relations.

"There is no need to talk about opening of the border as long as the
genocide remains unrecognized. Turkey is be the only one to benefit
from the border opening," says Ruben Hakobyan.

As for Zohrab Hovhannisyan, he says that those responsible for the
crimes perpetrated against Armenians in the early 20th century must be
brought to justice and hopes that there will never be genocide again.

"There will never be a Turkish-Armenian border opening. Those are just
rumors. The most important thing for Armenians today is international
recognition of genocide," says doctor Svetlana Aghayan.

Some citizens, however, say that there will come a day when Turkey
will recognize the genocide.

"I hope that 200 or 300 years later Turkey will be forced to recognize
the Armenian Genocide because that is proven by facts. We, our children
and grandchildren will not see it, but it will eventually happen,"
says Andranik Margaryan.