Gaïdz Minassian, conference on "Turkey-Armenia relations, the turn, issues, challenges?", organized by the Association for Research and Archiving the Memory Armenian (ARAM), Marseille, October 16 2009: "(...)
what we must understand is that Armenians must also have this memory will work from memory. Look, Armenia is a state since 1918, both a republic 18 to 20, a Soviet republic, a republic independent post-Soviet present. There were deaths in each case, the Armenians who killed Armenians.
It must be said. Realized that all of us here? Which reported to the Armenians who died? You can hide behind Hitler, one can hide behind Stalin, one can hide behind perestroika. There is a point we must ask hard questions, and that's how we advance. You can not ask only for Turkey to move forward, saying, "make your memory work" happened to Armenians and say, 'Oh, no. " Course the first move must come from Turkey on the genocide, on that there is nothing to say. But the Armenians must also work to advance for themselves out of this darkness that stands in their way, to overcome this blindness that prevents them from discussing them. And why they do not discuss them? Because there is no tradition of state. (...) No, no, not only Soviet [tradition explaining this situation] because there are also Caucasian identity is there, among Armenians from Armenia, Eastern identity is there among Armenians and Armenia and the Near East. And we here in France or the United States, we're Westerners, we are democrats, we are citizens, we are liberals, etc.. But that does not mean that because of being one of diaspora is necessarily democratic. that's important too.
Armenians in Armenia need democracy, the Armenians in the diaspora also need
democracy for their own political game. And that's important. " Source:
Turkey Armenia relations: conference Gaïdz Minassian # 3 sent assoaram . - Current time on video.
See also the same political scientist:
"armenite", "Armenian question" What is it?
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