ArmInfo. It is clear that the Armenian authorities intend to satisfy Turkey's demands regarding the Armenian Genocide, expert in Turkic studies Varuzhan Geghamyan told ArmInfo.
He noted that in his address to the people on the occasion of the 109th anniversary of the Armenian Genocide, the head of the Armenian government Nikol Pashinyan used the expression "Armenian Genocide" only three times, and the expression "Mets Yeghern" ("Great Massacre") - 11 times. The expert noted that in the message there is no question at all about the process of international recognition of the Genocide, there is no assessment of the crime committed by Turkey, and the fact of genocide itself is presented as simply "those killed in the Ottoman Empire." Meanwhile, the expert continued, the concept of "Mets Yeghern" is not a legal category, which cannot be said about the concept of "genocide."
Answering the question of whether this is Ankara's requirements, Geghamyan pointed out that this fact is unambiguous. "You don't need to be a genius not to understand: the country's authorities are making further concessions against the backdrop of Turkey's preconditions for normalizing relations with Armenia," the expert noted, pointing to the part of the message that says that "perhaps It is because of this defective condition that we are constantly exposed to new shocks."
In his message on the 109th anniversary of the Armenian Genocide, Armenia's Premier Nikol Pashinyan stated, in particular:
"This is an imperative, an urgent imperative, and we must evaluate the relations between the Meds Yeghern and the First Republic of Armenia, we must relate the perception of the Meds Yeghern with the vital interests of the Republic of Armenia, our national statehood.
"Meds Yeghern, deprivation of homeland is not a verdict for us, which we have to bear as a continuous search for a lost homeland. We must stop the searches of a homeland, because we have found that homeland, our Promised Land, where milk and honey flow. For us, the commemoration of the martyrs of the Meds Yeghern should not symbolize the lost homeland, but the found and real homeland, in the person of the Republic of Armenia, whose competitive, legitimate, thoughtful and creative policies can exclude a repetition."