TURKISH DEPUTY: ANKARA WISHES OPEN BORDER WITH ARMENIA
Yerkir
07.06.2006 18:13
YEREVAN (YERKIR) – Turkey wishes to have open border with Armenia,
member of the BSEC PA committee on legal and political issues,
member of Republican People’s Party of Turkey Mehmet Sevigen told
journalists. In his words, Turkey does everything depending on it
to open the border with Armenia, but the latter should also take
essential steps.
“Armenia should observe the U.N. resolution and quit the seized Azeri
territories,’ Sevigen said. When touching upon Turkey’s acknowledgement
of the Armenian Genocide in the Ottoman Empire in 1915, Sevigen
stated that the “events of 1915 were not genocide but so-called
genocide.” “Armenia should surrender its claims for recognizing these
events as genocide. Historians should deal with the issue.
Turkey has opened all its archives of those times and invited all
historians concerned. When everything clears up we will see that
matters do not stand the same as politicians describe,” Sevigen said,
reported IA Regnum.