Once Perinçek made a statement about innocent Armenian victims (video)
“During the Turkish history Perinçek is known as a scandalous person who provides services to various authorities and Turkish political circles have given him a label of a political tool,”-said Turkologist Ruben Melkonyan today at the meeting with the journalists. He is sure that it is evident that represented by Perinçek we deal with Turkey. “The latest scandalous case was the Ergenekon terrorist organization, within the framework of its trial Perinçek was sentenced to 117 years of imprisonment and it is interesting that Turkey immediately releases him and there is no other case in history, when such a long imprisonment vanishes, besides Turkey removes the ban to leave the country and Perinçek appears in Strasbourg to do what he has been ordered.” The speaker thinks that we must pay attention to the fact that during the trial at the ECHR representatives of Turkish authorities of different years were standing behind Perinçek. Turkologist highlighted the fact that once Perinçek made a statement, which isn’t beneficial for him, “In 1980s a book was published in Turkey, which included the self-defense speech of Perinçek during one of his trials and on the 154th page of that book Perinçek, who today denies the Armenian Genocide, made a statement that at the end of the 19th century and at the beginning of the 20th century Abdul Hamid painted the eastern provinces of Turkey with the blood of innocent Armenians. It means that the person, who indirectly recognized the Armenian Genocide in 1980s, now denies it.” Ruben Melkonyan thinks that we must use that fact to represent his real image but Turkologist doesn’t have high expectations for the trial at the ECHR by noting that recently it has become a politicized structure.
