This morning we went to Martin - the journalist's apartment. After some fruit juice, cookies and coffee we had a lecture by an expert on the so-called Armenian Genocide or Medz Yeghern (The Great Catastrophe, as Armenians call it).
Turkey has for 90 years denied the extent of the massacres of Armenians between 1915 and 1917, but today the animosity is loosening up, and Turks are slowly becoming aware of facts. Turkey, however, has no intentions of admitting to have committed genocide, as this is illegal in UN treaties, and would require Turkey to pay reparations to Armenians. Therefore the word "Genocide" is avoided.
Personally I have come to the belief that Turkey must do the following: Become aware of the facts, take moral responsibility for the massacres, change their history books and apologize to the Armenians. However, I do not think Turkey should assume any legal responsibility for Genocide. Stirring up the past and fighting over land has no place in the 21st century.
By Jeppe Kirk Bonde
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