World-renowned French-Armenian singer, songwriter, actor, public activist, and diplomat Charles Aznavour hopes that he can help something happen between Armenia and Turkey, Aznavour told The Hollywood Reporter.

To the query on how he approaches his role as ambassador, Aznavour responded:

“I am able to be active in diplomacy; for example, we have brought 12,000 people to Armenia from Syria. We have to get them out of the country because they are going to be killed because they are Christian. Not just Armenians who are Christian, Yazidis, and some Kurds too which are Muslim but live differently. It’s not politics, no politics at all. It’s diplomacy.

“I work by myself and I tell people what I have done afterwards. I don’t ask the president [of Armenia] what I should do. I think that would be too difficult. For example, I have an upcoming appointment with the ambassador of Turkey, which is rare. I don’t want to say before that I am going to go, because they’ll say ‘Don’t do that’ or ‘Don’t go there’ and I want to be a free man.

“On April 15th it will be 100 years that they [the Turks] haven’t recognized it, so if I can help in any way I’m gonna do it.”