TURKISH FM: WE WANT TO HAVE GOOD RELATIONS WITH ALL ARMENIANS

PanARMENIAN.Net
08.11.2009 17:34 GMT+04:00

/PanARMENIAN.Net/ Turkish foreign minister has sought to reach out
to the Armenian diaspora around the world, saying Turkey wanted to
have good relations with all Armenians. "We want to establish good
relations with our neighbors and with all Armenians, in Beirut or
in Paris. It is for everyone’s good to develop a fair memory. But
we cannot build the peace and the future if everyone tells of their
own pain and history. Let go of your one-sided memory shackles,"
Ahmet Davutoglu told a press briefing in Paris after a meeting with
his French counterpart Bernard Kouchner.

"I know that my grandfathers, too, have suffered. I know the pains
of those who were forced to leave their their homes in the Caucasus
or the Balkans," Davutoglu said.

Davutoglu said Turkey had proposed "a new vision and a horizon" in
offering to set up a joint study with Armenians and historians from
other countries to examine all the facts around the incidents of 1915.

"We can only build a better future with a fair memory," Davutoglu said,
Anatolian News Agency reported.