Wednesday, April 24 2024 12:43

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."