TURKS AND ARMENIANS ARE NOT ONLY PEOPLES, WHICH ARE SEPARATED BY GENOCIDE ISSUE
PanARMENIAN.Net
19.12.2006 16:43 GMT+04:00
/PanARMENIAN.Net/ Turkish professor of History Taner Akcam of Minnesota
University delivered his lecture at University of Amsterdam December
18. It was devoted to his latest book ‘A shameful act’. Previous to
the lecture the participants to this event, among who many members
of Turkish and Armenian community, watched Dutch documentary by
Dorothe Forma, called "A wall of silence" featuring the meeting of
Taner Akcam with Armenian historian Vahakn Dadrian. The Lecture was
very impressive, said Inge Drost, the Public Relations officer of the
Federation of Armenian Organizations in Netherlands to PanARMENIAN.Net
reporter. "The historian presented his work in Armenian scientific
documents, Ottoman archives, Istanbul tribunals as well as research
into the German archives. After Akcam’s speech many Turks stood up to
protest rather then ask questions, but he peacefully and effectively
managed to at the same time give clear response as to pacify by
stressing by utterances like that "we have to learn to talk," said
Drost. She also stressed that Taner Akcam underlined that the Armenian
and Turks are not the only two peoples in the world that have problems
with each other and that there are ways to solve those and that those
processes need time and efforts.