“ONE SHOULD SPEAK OF ARMENIAN TRAGEDY MORE RESPECTIVELY,” FORMER PRIME
MINISTER OF TURKEY SAYS
ISTANBUL, January 14 (Noyan Tapan). “Chirac was mistaken in his
statements not in the least. The deportation took place indeed, even
if one may not call it Genocide. The people endured a lot, there were
numerous victims. Hence, one should speak more respectively of it. As
the matter concerns the tragedy, doesn’t it?” such a statement was
made by former Prime Minister of Turkey Mesut Yilmaz in the air of the
“Aber Turk” TV channel. According to the “Marmara” newspaper of
Istanbul, Kyurshat Bumin, a journalist of the Turkish “Eni Shafak”
newspaper, highly estimated Yilmaz’s abovementioned statement.
“Indeed, it was quite unexpected to hear such a thing from the person,
who achieved the post of the Prime Minister. One will not hear such a
statement even from an ordinary MP,” the author of the article
emphasized. He also held an opinion that one should approach the
problems like “land claims” or “compensation of damage” more
competently and evenly. Only then, according to him, “we will see how
difficult it is to have a collective memory based on negation. One
should free himself from the sense of guilty, which doesn’t alive us
alone,” writes Bumin.
From: Emil Lazarian | Ararat NewsPress