Turkish analyst: Turkey must change its strategy in genocide issue

PanARMENIAN.Net - "As we all know, Turkey's usual response to Armenian claims of genocide has been "let's leave this subject to the historians". This means, we expect that historians will sit down, examine all the documents from both sides, as well as from third countries, and make a decision," Mehmet Yilmaz writes in Hurriyet. He says the real problem is "what label the historians will decide to put on the tableau which emerges as they do their work." He thinks that historians will be subjective in their viewpoint, and it will hamper the truth, since everyone will speak about the Armenian Genocide based on his own beliefs. "So, once again, the problem will not be solved. Some historians will say "it was genocide," while others assert "it wasn't."" the analyst writes.



Reminding the recent decision from the International Court of Justice on the "ethnic cleansing" and the allegations of genocide in Srebrenitsa, Yilmaz said Bosnia signals to Turkey where they should be looking for solutions to this problem. "Turkey should start preparing for this case to be brought to The Hague's International Court of Justice, and should begin to focus its efforts in this direction. We have accustomed ourselves to leaving debate on this subject open to the flow of developments outside of us, rather than taking action into our own hands. But we have got to change our strategy, and bring the fast-paced developments on this subject under our control. The government must not be dissuaded by the atmosphere of election season, and must not allow this subject to be postponed," the Hurriyet analyst stressed.