TURKISH ARCHIVES SHOULD BE OPENED
Support A1+!«I am convinced that Kemal Pasha had a Black Book, which contained the places and number of people exiled. Without the opening of the Turkish archives the Genocide of 1915 is the same what the Holocaust without German documents is», Professor Richard Hovhannisyan stated today at the seminar entitled «Armenian Genocide. 90 years».
The historian stressed that it should be clarified whether the Genocide was perpetrated in 1915-1921 or it started earlier, in 1886, under Sultan Amid. The clarification of this question will help to determine the exact number of victims. Professor Hovhannisyan does not share the opinion that the documents referring to the Armenian Genocide were eliminated in the Turkish archives lone ago. «To date Taleat Pasha's documents are used in different books and editions. One of them says, «Do not exile the rest of the Christians». Here a question arouses. Who were not exiled and not exiled Christians? » he says.
In the opinion of Richard Hovhannisyan we yield to Turkey in propaganda. «When you open the website of the Turkish Embassy in the US you can see that it is filled with the materials on Khodjalu events while our website is empty», he noted.
Outcomes of the public survey held by the Armenian Center for National and International Studies on the occasion of the 90-th anniversary of the Armenian Genocide were also presented at the seminar. 1900 Armenian citizens took part in the survey. The purpose of the survey was to find out the awareness and attitude of the Armenian people towards the Genocide issue. 2 of the 40 questions referred to the Karabakh conflict and its settlement. Most respondents marked the direct connection between the Genocide and the Karabakh problem.
