So-called called Research Center for Turkish-Armenian Relations  opened in Erzrum, aimed at inciting Armenophobia in Turkey

ArmInfo.The so-called Research Center for Turkish-Armenian Relations was opened in Erzrum. The  ultimate and main goal of the center is to stir up Armenophobia in Turkey.

According to the Anadolu agency, the head of the Erzrum municipality,  Mehmet Sekmen, spoke at the opening of the Center named after  Professor Erol Kyurkcuoglu. He recalled that the well-known historian  Kyurkcuoglu devoted more than 20 years of his life to the topic of  Turkish-Armenian relations.

Along with the Center in Erzrum, there will also be a library named  after Professor Erol Kyurkcuoglu, which contains thousands of  documents and publications on the topic of Armenian-Turkish  relations.  According to Sekmen, the archives collected by the  professors tell how "Armenian gangs killed civilians in Erzurum and  other parts of Eastern Anatolia." The head of the municipality  expressed hope that the new Center would contribute to "exposing the  lies about the pseudo-Armenian genocide."

The opening of this center is a clear example of how Turkey falsifies  history as part of a policy of denial.  The opening of the center  with such a bias once again demonstrates the correctness of the  decision of the previous authorities of Armenia to refuse the  proposal of the Turkish side to transfer the issue of recognition of  the Armenian Genocide in the Ottoman Empire from the international  political field to the research field.  Moreover, against the  background of the "epoch of peace" declared by the current  authorities of Armenia and the full course towards rapprochement with  Turkey, the opening of this center by the Turkish authorities raises  many questions that, in the current realities, are clearly  rhetorical.