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Cicek: "We Can Say That No Genocide Took Place"
ANKARA - Turkish Minister of Justice and Government Spokesman Cemil Cicek has indicated that, after many years of leaving the issue of so-called genocide to historians, it is now high time for Turkey to start disproving all allegations in various countries. | "Nope, didn't happen here, nope, nope" |
Cicek remarked that for centuries the Armenians lived in an empire (Ottoman) happily and in a rich atmosphere. ''Armenians began uprising against the Ottoman government with the incitement, encouragement and promises of some countries under the conditions of the First World War and massacred especially Muslim Turks, leading to mutual incidents.'' | "Them Euros stirred things up, provoking our happy, smiling Armenians to kill us innocent Muslims! So, we went mutual on them! But it wasn't genocide.." |
''April 24 is the end of incidents perpetrated by Armenians and what happened did happen within the context of conditions of war. This aspect is disregarded and Turkey is unjustly blamed for something that it never did.'' | "It was war, I tell you, war! ...just not genocide, ok." |
Underlining that Turkey suffered from Armenian terrorism especially after 1965, Cicek expressed sadness for Turkish diplomats killed by Armenian terrorists. Cicek noted that Armenians influenced the parliaments of the countries in which they are powerful and succeeded in obtaining parliament decisions in their favor in 15 countries. | "Them dirty Armenians control the world, I tell you! They's still plotting again us, deep dark evil plots" |
Noting that Turkey has always considered the incidents of 1915 as an historical topic and that should be made clear by historians, Cicek said, ''if we evaluate the topic from a political perspective, this would take us to a different point. Apparently, parliaments of certain countries can make decisions based on the incidents of the past and can cause a chaotic atmosphere. As Turks, we wished that, instead of turning incidents of the past into a topic of hatred and anger, they should be brought to daylight by the historians with an approach looking at the future. Such a Turkish approach has been undeniably disregarded by the parliaments of certain nations due to domestic political gains and other reasons. That is why, Turkey has given up thinking 'let's look at the future, not the past. Let's not cause younger generations raise with hatred and anger by digging into pains of the past'. We must have a new approach to the subject.''
''Based on our archives and confidence in our history and culture, we can say that no genocide took place. But altogether, we have to disprove the lies of those who claim that a genocide has taken place. We have to do it with the help of all of the government institutions and NGOs across the globe. Turkey must follow a new policy, quite different than its past approach which indicated that the issue of the so-called Armenian genocide is a matter of historians. The old policy that so-called Armenian genocide is a historical matter and not political does not meet Turkey's requirements. We have to pursue a much different policy globally as of this moment,'' indicated Cicek. | "Nothing to see here, move along" |
Cicek mentioned that Turkey has opened all of its archives. ''Those who want to closely study the archives are welcome in Turkey. We can form joint commissions comprised of historical experts. We expect the Armenians to also open all of their archives. Turkey is confident about the results of such commissions.''
| "The witnesses are all dead.." |
Cicek stressed that the issue of so-called Armenian genocide has been thoroughly evaluated in the meeting of the Council of Ministers today (Monday). ''We are looking at the issue of so-called Armenian genocide from legal, political and historical perspectives,'' commented Cicek. The Turkish Ministry of Foreign Affairs will coordinate all of our activities in disproving Armenian allegations, told Cicek. According to Cicek, many Turkish organizations, individuals, non-governmental organizations work on disproving Armenian allegations. We may establish a coordination center to make possible the best battle against baseless Armenian allegations, said Cicek.
Posted by: Steve 2005-04-26 |
