Armen Darbinyan: «We Want Turks to Become Better»

PanARMENIAN.Net - «I suppose we are «exploiting» the fact of the Armenian Genocide very lubberly. Maybe, we have the task now, which is fulfilled to a certain degree - to make Turkey and Turks recognize their responsibility for that bloody action in their history. Make them, put pressure upon them, make them understand and only then go further,» Rector of the Russian-Armenian (Slavonic) University, former PM of Armenia Armen Darbinyan stated at the University October 27. «Judging from our policy, we want Turks to become better. This is my assessment of our actions,» Darbinyan remarked. «Our urge to worldwide recognition of the fact of the Genocide resulted in recognition of the Armenian Genocide and Turkey's need to apologize to us by 22 countries. What does apologize mean? Only strong ones apologize. Germans apologized for the Holocaust to the Jews publicly and adopted a law, criminalizing denial of the Jewish Genocide on the part of German citizens.



«Turks are not ready to apologize to us. We want to press on them and make them purer, better, more noble, but we will not manage by default, as they are not ready to it. Maybe, by recognition of the Genocide we make closer a date, when they will be ready to realize what they have committed - but we speak not of ourselves, but Turks. Thus, we make actions, put them in the center of our international policy - actions, which finally should result in improvement and ennoblement of Turks. Maybe, it is a good task, but I believe we have more important ones… We have the task to ennoble ourselves. This is a task we have to solve - otherwise the loss we have suffered will remain unrequited,» the former PM of Armenia said, reports IA Regnum.