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Turkey will acknowledge Armenian Genocide if West and U.S. demand this
19.03.2007 12:45 GMT+04:00
/PanARMENIAN.Net/ The danger to the Turks is that the Armenians will
want recompense for losing their land, just as the Jews of Europe
demanded from the Germans, Robert Fisk, the Independent’s Middle East
correspondent said in an interview with Armenian Reporter. `I suppose
the EU will have to help Turkey out with that. But you can’t go on
forever denying it. It will come back and back and back. And then you
die and then there’s your children and their children’s children, and
it’ll keep on going, like it does with the Palestinians and anyone
who’s been dispossessed; they’ll keep it going. You know you will not
get Turkish Armenia back, it’s not going to happen – maybe in 10,000
years, but not now – but at least you can have that recognition. Of
course there will be claims. After all, American insurance companies
have at last started paying out insurance claims against victims of
the Armenian Genocide – or `the Armenian tragedy,’ as they call
it. Even the insurance companies will not call it by its rightful
name,’ he said.
`More and more Turkish academics are trying to push it through. The
problem is, if the Western governments, including the United States,
stood up to the Turks and said they must acknowledge it, they
would. But since they don’t, the Turks don’t have to. They get away
with it,’ Mr Fisk underscored.