Turkish historians' statements on Armenian Genocide can't be treated seriously

PanARMENIAN.Net - The statements by Turkish historians, specifically by the President of the Turkish Association of Historians, about "falsifications" of the fact of the Armenian Genocide can't be treated seriously, an Armenian expert said.



"Their allegations are nothing but a regular propagandistic trick," Director of the Institute of Oriental Studies at the RA Academy of Sciences, Prof. Ruben Safrastyan told a PanARMENIAN.Net reporter.



"Academic circles do not question the fact of the Armenian Genocide. Leading historians throughout the globe are convinced of it. As to documents allegedly proving the opposite, the statements on their existence have nothing to do with the truth. To understand this, you can study German, British and U.S. archives. Actually, Yusuf Halacoglu has specialized in the Ottoman period and he could be useful for Turkey if he engaged in study of this period.



Earlier, 1news.az Azeri agency quoted Halacoglu as saying that "the Turkish Association of Historians possesses 100 archive pages proving that Armenians were not subjected to genocide during the WWI."