Turks And Armenians are Not Only Peoples, Which are Separated by Genocide Issue

PanARMENIAN.Net - Turkish professor of History Taner Akçam of Minnesota University delivered his lecture at University of Amsterdam December 18. It was devoted to his latest book 'A shameful act'. Previous to the lecture the participants to this event, among who many members of Turkish and Armenian community, watched Dutch documentary by Dorothe Forma, called "A wall of silence" featuring the meeting of Taner Akcam with Armenian historian Vahakn Dadrian. The Lecture was very impressive, said Inge Drost, the Public Relations officer of the Federation of Armenian Organizations in Netherlands to PanARMENIAN.Net reporter. "The historian presented his work in Armenian scientific documents, Ottoman archives, Istanbul tribunals as well as research into the German archives. After Akcam's speech many Turks stood up to protest rather then ask questions, but he peacefully and effectively managed to at the same time give clear response as to pacify by stressing by utterances like that "we have to learn to talk," said Drost. She also stressed that Taner Akcam underlined that the Armenian and Turks are not the only two peoples in the world that have problems with each other and that there are ways to solve those and that those processes need time and efforts.