Influential Turkish businessman of Jewish origin, president of Alarko holding Isaac Alaton sent a letter to “Economic and Social research in Turkey” (TESEV) fund calling to make efforts for the acknowledgement of the Armenian Genocide by Ankara.

Turkish paper Radical presents the letter.

“Dear friends, there are still 3 years left until 2015, but those years pass without any change… April 24, 2015, approaches so let us change our denial policy. It is a shame…I am tired of the fear of facing the past. Let us be loud. Our duty to our coming generation is to provide for them respect towards our country and society.

For 90 years we have committed many sins. We have filled closets with skeletons and locked the door. For 90 years we announce the world to be blind and we are afraid of going one on one. We have been taught to be afraid. Skeletons rot in the closets and their stink is already unbearable. I can’t breathe, can you? I was jealous of the Bulgarian diplomats who confessed having treated the Turks badly.

Let us also raise our voice to be heard by our diplomats. And the diplomats should make their voices to be heard by party leaders. Let them help us open our closets full of skeletons. After their funeral we will honor their memory in a minute of silence and then we will be freed of our sins.

‘A just man should not put his sins on his son’s shoulders,’ my philosophy teacher said. I am looking for respect. I give respect great importance. Help me.

With respect,

Isaac Alaton,” the letter reads.