TURKISH JOURNALIST CALLED KARABAKH ARMENIAN LAND

/PanARMENIAN.Net/
16.11.2009 19:47 GMT+04:00

/PanARMENIAN.Net/ Turkish Akcam’s journalist Nagahen Alci’s statement
about Nagorno Karabakh mounted a new anti-Armenian hysteria in
Azerbaijan. Turkish journalist was recently on a visit to Stepanakert
where she met with NKR officials and colleagues working in Karabakh.

In an interview to NKR Public Television, Alci said she had heard a
lot about Karabakh and decided to see Stepanakert with her own eyes.

NKR Public TV’s news journalist Varduhi Ohanyan who conducted the
interview told a PanARMENIAN.Net reporter that Turkish journalist said
her country was mistaken since Karabakh was truly an Armenian land.

During meetings with NKR senior officials, Alci made the following
statement, "You are determined enough not to give your lands".

Ohanyan said they possessed "raw material" of interview, proving that
Nagahen Alci really called Karabakh an Armenian land. NKR Public
Channel journalist said she was a little surprised by her Turkish
colleague’s boldness. "I also asked her about her opinion on Armenian
Genocide. Nagahen Alci stressed she was not historian and all she knew
was that tragic events occurred in 1915, and that Armenians and Turks
should look to the future and become friends," Varduhi Ohanyan said.

Akcam editorial office has announced that "in case Nagahen Alci’s is
proved to have made such statement she will be strictly punished,"
Turkish media report.