Famous director Atom Egoyan wrote an open letter to the people of Turkey that was published by Agos, an Armenian weekly of Istanbul.

In his letter, Egoyan said he is exhausted by his anger and calls on Turkish society to question government's motivations while denying the truth about Armenian Genocide.

“I’m exhausted by my anger. I have always thought that if you understood all the things I know, you’d feel the same way.  You would think that it’s enough, that it’s time to move on,” Egoyan wrote.

“Without some acknowledgment of the monstrous nature of the crime that continues to be perpetrated through denial and apathy we shall not rest.

We have committed ourselves to remember, and yet the crime remains a raw wound on the very land it was committed upon.

I’m exhausted by your government’s vehement denial, exhausted by my inability to move on.   Yet there is little choice but to accept this exhaustion in the face of its alternative”.

He believes the Turkish government imposed denial policy upon the soldiers of Turkish people.

“Your government has imposed the denial of this crime upon your shoulders for a century.  There will never be a commission to ‘reveal the truth’ and we are not interested in seeing your open archives.  We have the truth from too many witnesses, seen the archives of your closest wartime collaborators and heard the wise counsel of Genocide and Holocaust scholars from around the world.

Today, I simply ask you to do your work, to question your government’s motivations, and to rise to this extraordinary challenge”.

Earlier Agos published an open letter by famous Armenian musician Serj Tankian.