Turkish intellectuals apologize for “great disaster”

Another crack in the wall of denial...

Turkish Intellectuals Apologize For Armenian ‘Great Disaster’ By Emil
DanielyanIn an unprecedented gesture, a group of Turkish intellectuals have
publicly apologized for what they called a “great disaster” that befell the
Ottoman Empire’s Armenian minority and urged their compatriots to follow suit.

“I cannot conscientiously accept the indifference to the great disaster that
Ottoman Armenians suffered in 1915, and its denial. I reject this injustice and
acting of my own will, I share the feelings and pains of my Armenian brothers
and sisters, and I apologize to them,” reads a petition signed by them and
published by the “Zaman” daily on Friday.

The newspaper said the signatories will ask other intellectuals and ordinary
Turks alike to sign the petition. “We are searching for human beings,” one of
them, scholar Baskin Oran, was quoted as saying. “We thought about urging the
state to apologize but we decided to let individuals act according to their
conscience. This call is for everybody.”

Armenialiberty.org