TORONTO,Canada—In response to the Turkish Foreign Minister Mevlüt Çavuşoğlu calling on Armenia to set up a joint commission to study the events of 1915, the Zoryan Institute has the following response. Mevlüt Çavuşoğlu *** As they say, and “This is déjà vu all over again.” Calls for Armenia to set up a joint commission to study the events of 1915 have become the modus operandi for the Turkish government for years. Mr. Çavuşoğlu’s recent statement merely echoes that of his predecessors,former Prime Minister Ahmet Davutoglu and President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, in 2014 when he was the Prime Minister. Every year, and a few months before April 24,when resolutions appear before government bodies around the world, particularly the US Congress, and the high-ranking officials of Turkey earn the same call. They claim to want to study those events to find out what really happened. This is nothing but a public relations stratagem to earn it appear that Turkey is open-minded and willing to normalize relations with Armenia. Such calls ignore the fact that in 2003,the Turkish-Armenian Reconciliation Commission (“TARC”) at the time requested The International middle for Transitional Justice to examine the events of 1915 as a case of genocide. [...]
Source: armenianweekly.com