YEREVAN, NOVEMBER 5, ARMENPRESS: Posting of the fake interview with Armenian Ambassador to Switzerland, famous Armenian singer Charles Aznavour is a regular Turkish falsification at the threshold of the Armenian Genocide centenary. Director of the Oriental Studies Institute of the National Academy of Sciences Ruben Safrastyan told Armenpress.

“I think other similar falsifications are possible from Turkey in near future. Everything is possible, including falsifications,” Mr Safrastyan noted. He stated that there is absolutely no change in the Turkish policy.

“I am sure that the current generation of Turkey is not able to principally change their country’s policy in the issue of the Armenian genocide recognition. They will continue posting falsifications and will go on with their denial policy,” the Turkologist stressed.

The information circulated by the Turkish “Posta” news agency that Charles Aznavour has given an interview to a Turkish journalist, does not correspond to reality. The Armenian Ministry of Foreign Affairs denied the above information, which has given a rise to hot debates in the Armenian reality. “Charles Aznavour has not given an interview to any Turkish newspaper and has not received any award,” Foreign Minister’s Spokesman Tigran Balayan has written down in his Twitter microblog.

It was written in the interview circulated by the Turkish mass media that Aznavour’s mother is allegedly a Turk. There were also other distinct pro-Turkish accentuations in the interview. It was reported that Aznavour was allegedly awarded with “Golden Maple”.