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Time in Yerevan: 11:07,   29 March 2024

Turkey must refuse to deceive itself and its people - Yetvart Danzikyan

Turkey must refuse to deceive itself and its people - Yetvart Danzikyan

YEREVAN, APRIL 24, ARMENPRESS. Because of Turkey’s refusal to confront the Armenian Genocide, the hate crimes and discriminatory attitude towards Armenians and other minorities still continue in that country, Yetvart Danzikyan, editor-in-chief of Istanbul’s Agos daily told Armenpress.

“Turkey must confront what it perpetrated against Armenians in 1915 and the subsequent period. As long as there is no such confrontation, the genocide to some extent can be considered as continuous. This is due to the absence of this confrontation that the hate crimes, the discriminatory attitude against Armenians and other minorities still continue”, he said.

He talked about the punishments used against Armenian lawmaker Garo Paylan who raised the issue of the Armenian Genocide in the Turkish parliament in January, 2017. “In previous months what had happened with Armenian lawmaker Garo Paylan after his speech at the Turkish parliament are the results of non-confrontation policy. Paylan was punished for talking about the genocide perpetrated in these lands, he was removed from three parliamentary sessions. This shows Turkey’s attitude 102 years later. Turkey must refuse to deceive itself and its people”, Yetvart Danzikyan said.

As for the normalization of the relations between Armenia and Turkey, Danzikyan criticized the Turkish stance on linking this issue with the Nagorno Karabakh conflict. “The dialogue must be established without preconditions, the relations between the two countries must not be sacrificed to Azerbaijan’s political preferences. It is too bad that Turkey links these relations with the Karabakh issue, the Armenia-Turkey relations must be viewed as having no linkage with this issue. It is necessary to start a dialogue, the borders must be opened”, the editor-in-chief of Agos said.

Araks Kasyan

 








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