YEREVAN, APRIL 24, ARMENPRESS. Guests from various parts of the world, including Turkey alongside the Armenians visited Tsitsernakaberd Memorial on the Armenian Genocide Commemoration Day. Armenpress had a conversation with one of them, a Turk historian, who arrived in Armenia from Ayntap city to pay tribute to the memory of 1.5 million victims of the Armenian Genocide. “The sole honest statement that the Turkish side can make on the commemoration day of the Armenian Genocide is summarized in one sentence, which is: “We apologize,” the Turk historian Susan Kalayji said in a conversation with Armenpress.

Today, she refused to talk about the Turkish Government which she considers to be a liar commenting that this day they must remember only the Armenian victims and honor their memory. According to Kalayji, a great number of Turks also feel sorry for Armenians in Turkey today. Reacting on the protests in Taksim Square she assesses that the protestors fighting against the Turkish Government also silently protest against the denial of the Armenian Genocide.

The fact of the Armenian Genocide by the Ottoman government has been documented, recognized, and affirmed in the form of media and eyewitness reports, laws, resolutions, and statements by many states and international organizations. The complete catalogue of all documents categorizing the 1915 wholesale massacre of the Armenian population in Ottoman Empire as a premeditated and thoroughly executed act of genocide, is extensive. Uruguay was the first country to officially recognize the Armenian Genocide in 1965. The massacres of the Armenian people were officially condemned and recognized as genocide in accordance with the international law by France, Germany, Italy, Belgium, Netherlands, Switzerland, Sweden, Russia, Poland, Lithuania, Greece, Slovakia, Cyprus, Lebanon, Uruguay, Argentina, Venezuela, Chile, Canada, Vatican and Australia.