BUSH’S GENOCIDE SPEECH UNACCEPTABLE FOR TURKEY
Armenians worldwide focused their attention on president George W. Bush’s annual speech on April 24. Turkey also caught it in the spotlight insofar as Turkish papers and Turkish Foreign Ministry’s statement suggest.
Foreign Ministry spokesperson Namek Tan presented the statement. Responding to US president’s April 24 speech, he said that there are a few acceptable ideas in it, Milliet newspaper reports. As to the hint at creating of a joint group of scholars in Bush’s speech, Tan considered it a positive proposal.
Though the spokesperson has not explained what statements are unacceptable for Turkey, they are obvious.
Pres. Bush says in his speech: "Today, we remember one of the horrible tragedies of the 20th century: the mass killing and forced exile of as many as 1.5 million of Armenians in the final days of the Ottoman Empire in 1915. This was a tragedy for all humanity and one that we and the world must never forget."
Though the statement lacks the word "genocide", this is a clear-cut definition of genocides as the UN Convention on Genocide has it.
Moreover, George Bush touches upon the analysis of the Center for Transitional Justice and though he considers it incomplete, he points out that it is a serious contribution to deepening the perception of 1915 event.
As it is known, a 17-page report was made in 2003 based on CTJ analysis in which it draws the following conclusion on the events of 1915 in the Ottoman Empire: "In whole, these events have all the elements of genocide as the UN Convention on Genocides defines it. Lawyers, political scientists, journalists and others will be correct if they use this definition for these events."
In other words, by referring to the CTJ’s analysis, Bush indirectly confirms that the events of 1915 match UN Conventions definition of genocides.
All these could not certainly be acceptable for the Turkish Foreign Ministry. What spokesperson Tan avoids say openly write the newspapers emphasizing that at the end of his speech president Bush passed his wife’s condolence to the Armenian nation. Curiously enough, Milliet titled its article on Bush’s speech "No Word ‘Genocide’ but…" thus showing its displeasure with it.
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