ATTEMPT TO DRIVE WEDGE BETWEEN ARMENIA, ITS DIASPORA

Boston Globe
opinion/letters/articles/2010/03/02/attempt_to_dri ve_wedge_between_armenia_its_diaspora/
March 2 2010
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GUNAY EVINCH alleges that the "ultranationalist" Armenian diaspora
is attempting to sabotage the Turkish-Armenian protocols by urging a
congressional resolution recognizing the Armenian genocide ("Genocide
resolution would undo Turkish, Armenian accord," Letters, Feb. 24).

This false allegation is nothing more than another Turkish strategy
to drive a wedge between Armenia and its diaspora.

Armenians in Armenia are just as determined to achieve justice for
the Armenian genocide. On Jan. 12, Armenia’s Constitutional Court
accepted the protocols, but ruled that they could not contradict
the preamble to Armenia’s constitution, which calls for achieving
international recognition of the genocide.

And in a Feb. 12 interview with David Frost, Armenian President Serge
Sarkisian responded, "Absolutely," when asked if he wants President
Obama to use the word "genocide."

The joint historical commission that Evinch proposes was condemned as
a "political sleight of hand designed to deny" the Armenian genocide
in a November letter to Turkey’s president by seven past presidents
of the International Association of Genocide Scholars.

The historians have spoken. Evinch and his Assembly of Turkish American
Associations must cease their genocide denial.

Laura Boghosian Lexington

From: Emil Lazarian | Ararat NewsPress