Plenty of closed historical issues in Armenian-Turkish relations

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None Armenian historian agree to start discussing the Armenian Genocide in Ottoman Empire, turkologist Ruben Melkonyan told journalists in Yerevan today.



"Mechanisms of the proposed subcommittee that must deal with historical issues between Armenia and Turkey, should be classified. For example, the question arises, how the agenda of the subcommittee should be defined? " the turkologist emphasized.  

 

He mentioned, that Turkey, of course, in every way will try to include the issue of the Armenian Genocide

in the agenda of discussions. "They can offer to study the Ottoman archives, which they consider to be their trump card against the Armenian side.



But, it is known, that the documents stored in the Ottoman archives and prove the fact of the Armenian Genocide, have been destroyed ", Mr. Melkonyan said.



According to him, in the Armenian-Turkish relations apart from the Armenian Genocide, there are a lot of other historical issues remaining closed to research.



"I want to note that no commission has the authority to decide if there was the genocide in the Ottoman Empire or not," the turkologist stressed.