443) 'Turks and Armenians were Made Enemies'

Turkish Institute of History (TTK) President Professor Yusuf Halacoglu stated Turks and Armenians, who lived together in peace for 850 years, were made enemies of each other by internal and external powers. . .

Indicating a serious murder is being committed Halacoglu added:

“The committers of these murders are the imperialist powers which accept so called Armenian Genocide in their parliaments.”

Halacoglu gave a speech at a panel titled, “Loyal Nation: Armenians,” organized by the Federation to Fight Against the Unfounded Armenian Allegations (ASEF). He questioned the reasons why Turks and Armenians became enemies all of sudden after living in peace for 850 years and added the main problem was that Armenian organizations like Kipchak and Tashnak made the two countries enemies.

Halacoglu wanted to open cases against the countries which accept the so-called, Armenian Genocide claim and reminded he said three years agos, ‘If there is an Armenian Genocide and mass graves of Armenians show me and lets open them together.”

Halacoglu noted this kind of an offer has not reached him so far, however, they have opened two mass graves of Turks massacred by Armenians.

Armenian name the 1915 Events as 'genocide' while the Turkish side argue that more than 500,000 Turkish people were massacred by the Armenian forces.

21 November 2005
Zaman, JTW