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    PROBLEM OF ARMENIAN GENOCIDE RUN TO REVISION OF TURKISH IDENTITY

    PanARMENIAN.Net
    01.02.2010 16:41 GMT+04:00

    /PanARMENIAN.Net/ The Problem of Genocide has a serious and devastating
    effects in terms of national and state identity of Turkey, Hayk
    Demoyan , director of the Institute of Armenian Genocide, historian
    told a press conference in Yerevan.

    According to him, in recent years the problem of identity deepened in
    Turkey, promoting more intensive discussion of the Armenian Genocide
    within the country. "Turkey started to review the provisions of
    Kemalism, which means to weaken the axis the entire state myth
    of Turkey was built. Therefore, to prevent the recognition of the
    Armenian Genocide is an urgent issue for Ankara. The question of
    Genocide is not only an external challenge, but also a problem that
    leads to a revision of the Turkish identity, he said.

    "It is clear that the Armenian side can only discuss elimination of
    the consequences of the Armenian Genocide: restoration of the Armenian
    cultural heritage, etc. In addition, we have every right to raise
    issues of compensation. Genocide is a crime against humanity that is
    punished, and the Turkish side should bear in mind that we can raise
    that question, " the historian said, adding that the discussion of
    historical issues can be dangerous for Turkey.

    The Protocols aimed at normalization of bilateral ties and opening of
    the border between Armenia and Turkey were signed in Zurich by Armenian
    Foreign Minister Edward Nalbandian and his Turkish counterpart Ahmet
    Davutoglu on October 10, 2009, after a series of diplomatic talks
    held through Swiss mediation. On January 12, 2010, the Constitutional
    Court of the Republic of Armenia found the protocols conformable to
    the country's Organic Law.

    The Armenian Genocide (1915-23) was the deliberate and systematic
    destruction of the Armenian population of the Ottoman Empire during
    and just after World War I. It was characterized by massacres, and
    deportations involving forced marches under conditions designed to
    lead to the death of the deportees, with the total number of deaths
    reaching 1.5 million.

    The date of the onset of the genocide is conventionally held to be
    April 24, 1915, the day that Ottoman authorities arrested some 250
    Armenian intellectuals and community leaders in Constantinople.

    Thereafter, the Ottoman military uprooted Armenians from their homes
    and forced them to march for hundreds of miles, depriving them of
    food and water, to the desert of what is now Syria. Massacres were
    indiscriminate of age or gender, with rape and other sexual abuse
    commonplace. The Armenian Genocide is the second most-studied case of
    genocide after the Holocaust. The Republic of Turkey, the successor
    state of the Ottoman Empire, denies the word genocide is an accurate
    description of the events. In recent years, it has faced repeated
    calls to accept the events as genocide.

    To date, twenty countries and 44 U.S. states have officially recognized
    the events of the period as genocide, and most genocide scholars
    and historians accept this view. The Armenian Genocide has been also
    recognized by influential media including The New York Times, BBC,
    The Washington Post and The Associated Press.

    The majority of Armenian Diaspora communities were formed by the
    Genocide survivors.
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