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MIKHAIL MEYER: ARMENIANS GENETIC RESERVES DESTROYED IN 1915
PanARMENIAN.Net
31.03.2006 01:20 GMT+04:00
/PanARMENIAN.Net/ It is possible to write the impartial history
of the events in Ottoman Turkey in 1915-1923. However, the essence
is not in the number of Armenians killed and deported, but in half
of the population of Western Armenia being annihilated, professor
Mikhail Meyer, the Director of the Institute of Asian and African
Studies of Moscow State University stated in Yerevan at a meeting
in the South Caucasian branch of the Caucasus Democracy Institute
development foundation. In his words, there was no term genocide in
WWI, however it changes nothing.
"Turkey has to reconsider its attitude to the Armenian Genocide. Delay
of the process will entail negative consequences for the country
itself," the famous Russian specialist of Turkic science said, when
answering a question of PanARMENIAN.Net. In his words, Turkey fears
not so much of territorial claims by Armenia, as compensation of
material and moral damage.
"No economy can bear that compensation," Meyer remarked. As
of parallels with Germany, which paid compensation to Holocaust
victims, Meyer remarked, "not all prisoners of concentration camps
got compensations."
At that the professor remarked the process of liberalization of
Turkey on the way to EU membership is not so fast. "I think the EU
will nevertheless stipulate accession by recognition of the fact
of the Armenian Genocide. EU representatives should be taken to the
Genocide Museum to see what actually happened in 1915," he remarked.
PanARMENIAN.Net
31.03.2006 01:20 GMT+04:00
/PanARMENIAN.Net/ It is possible to write the impartial history
of the events in Ottoman Turkey in 1915-1923. However, the essence
is not in the number of Armenians killed and deported, but in half
of the population of Western Armenia being annihilated, professor
Mikhail Meyer, the Director of the Institute of Asian and African
Studies of Moscow State University stated in Yerevan at a meeting
in the South Caucasian branch of the Caucasus Democracy Institute
development foundation. In his words, there was no term genocide in
WWI, however it changes nothing.
"Turkey has to reconsider its attitude to the Armenian Genocide. Delay
of the process will entail negative consequences for the country
itself," the famous Russian specialist of Turkic science said, when
answering a question of PanARMENIAN.Net. In his words, Turkey fears
not so much of territorial claims by Armenia, as compensation of
material and moral damage.
"No economy can bear that compensation," Meyer remarked. As
of parallels with Germany, which paid compensation to Holocaust
victims, Meyer remarked, "not all prisoners of concentration camps
got compensations."
At that the professor remarked the process of liberalization of
Turkey on the way to EU membership is not so fast. "I think the EU
will nevertheless stipulate accession by recognition of the fact
of the Armenian Genocide. EU representatives should be taken to the
Genocide Museum to see what actually happened in 1915," he remarked.