Stepan Stepanyan: Armenia Should Urge Turkey to Return Territories

PanARMENIAN.Net - Armenia should raise the issue of returning of historical Armenian territories by Turkey, head of the department of history of the Armenian issue and Armenian Genocide of the Institute of History at the National Academy of Sciences Stepan Stepanyan. considers. In his words, to date 18 states have recognized the Armenian Genocide and this offers the reason to urge Turkey to return the territories. Stepanyan considers that the Armenian diplomats and Diaspora should play a significant role in the issue.



"We should not wait until all the states of the world recognize the Armenian Genocide. The diplomatic work should be targeted at the returning of historical Armenian territories. Turkey will never acknowledge the Armenian Genocide. Its barbarian attitude to the issue has not changed so far. On the contrary, when Armenia speaks of the opening of the Armenian-Turkish border or Karabakh conflict settlement Turkey tries to oblige Armenia to abandon the campaign on the Armenian Genocide recognition," he said, reported Novosti-Armenia.