A DISCUSSION ON THE ARMENIAN GENOCIDE IN THE AMERICAN PRESS
Support A1+!The Armenian Genocide continues to be the key issue of the American press. An editorial referring to the Armenian Genocide was published in the “New York Times” on May 17, 2005 critisizing the Turkish refuting policy which puts the issue of the Turkey integration in the European Union in question.
The statement of Nabi Sensoy, Turkish Ambassador to the USA was published in the same paper on May 24 in which the Turkish official notes that there are no legal warrants and evidence to prove the Genocide and the historical studies are not satisfactory in this context.
Referring to the incompatible claims of the Turkish Ambassador’s letter Armenian Ambassador to the USA Tatul Margaryan released a letter to the “New York Times” daily which was published on May 31.The press service of the Foreign Ministry presents the letter fully.
“Regardless of the claims of the Turkish Ambassador that history must be left to historians’ speculations and study, the Turkish authorities make the history a precondition for establishing intergovernmental ties with Armenia.
Turkey must first of all take into consideration its own history and must eliminate all the vetoes and cease the pursuit of the Turkish historians who ventured to study the events of 1915. Only in that case the Turkish historians will have a chance to study the abundant historical data including the verdict of the Military Tribunal of 1919 according to which the initiators of the Armenian Genocide were condemned and sentenced to death.
The number of countries which have to interfere into the matter because of the Turkish refuting policy and express their positions on this score gradually increases.
The historians and lawyers including Rafael Lemkin who defined the term Genocide and put it in usage as well as the International Union of the Genocide specialists have already recognized that the events of 1915 fully go in line with the criteria of the Genocide Convention of 1948.”
