‘LET’S FORGET ABOUT YEREVAN:’ MILLIYET

Tert.am
03.05.10

Armenians living in Armenia and in the Diaspora are not and will
probably never be our friends, Dogan Heper writes in Turkish local
daily Milliyet.

"Armenians living in Turkey are our friends. But Armenians in Armenia
and Diaspora are not and will probably never be our friends. Without
taking account their quantity they want to challenge Turkey. They
burn our flag. We have forgotten that they are the killers of our
diplomats, and they too are having difficulty in remembering it,"
writes the author, adding that the Armenia-Turkey boarder will open,
should Armenians, much in the same way as the Turks, forget about
the past and open "a new and white page."

"But let’s suppose Turkey opens the border, as some of our
intellectuals demand, and apologizes [from Armenians]. Whether there
will not emerge demands referring to territory and compensation? They
have fixed all that in their Constitution, haven’t they? If that is
the case, may the border not open, and let’s forget about Yerevan.

Let’s just suppose that they do not exist. This is the best version
for the moment," writes Heper.