World Press Flooded In Publications On

[MosJan]

WORLD PRESS FLOODED IN PUBLICATIONS ON ARMENIAN GENOCIDE

 

Reporters of the international authoritative mass media arrive in Armenia to highlight the commemoration of 90th anniversary of the Armenian Genocide. Some of them have already send materials to their newspapers on the massacres of 1,5 million Armenians committed by the Ottoman Turkey in the years of the World War I. The leading French, German, Swiss, Argentinean and other mass media have already covered the Genocide issue.

 

The Associated Press has published three large articles on the Armenian Genocide on April 14. Michael Eckel, reporter, entitled his article "Armenians Go on Struggling for Recognition of Genocide Even After 90 Years since the Great Genocide." Eckel told the story of 102 years old Giulina Mousoyan.

 

"Armenia used to be a large kingdom that stretched from the Black Sea to the Caspian, but it was divided in 1915. A part of it was given to Russia, while the second one was seized by the Ottoman Turkey," the AP wrote, telling about the sufferings of the Armenians on their way to exile and in the Der el-Zor desert.

 

Luis Mickaelser, another reporter of the Associated Press, wrote from Ankara about the fight the Turks unfolded against Orhan Pamuk who dared to openly inform his compatriots that 1 million of Armenians were killed in the years of the World War I.

 

"Recently, PM Erdogan and Gul, Turkish foreign minister, touched upon the issue, obviously hoping that they can hinder the international recognition of the genocide. Erdogan said that all countries should open their archives for the researchers, so that the latter can study whether the events were a genocide or not. Meanwhile, Gul characterized the statements of the genocide as slander," Mickaelser wrote and added:" The Turks fear that the Armenians can use the statements on the genocide for compensation demanding money or the lost lands."

 

Joseph Poghosian prepared the third publication for the AP from Lebanon. He met with the people that moved to Bekay valley and Egypt after the heroic battle by the Musa Mountain.

 

By Tatoul Hakobian