The experts of nonprofit research and policy institute — European Stability Initiative (ESI), Diba Nigar Göksel and Gerald Knaus issued a report on Armenia-Turkey relations, Turkish Sunday’s Zaman reports. The experts reckon that Turkey and Armenia have a chance for debate to go forward.

“There are hardly any reputable scholars in the field of genocide studies who doubt that what happened to the Armenians in 1915 constitutes Genocide.

However, it is also clear that modern-day Turkey is not legally responsible for genocidal acts committed nearly a century ago, and that acknowledging the genocide would not bring into question the established Turkish-Armenian border,” says the report “Noah’s Dove Returns: Armenia, Turkey and the Debate on Genocide” head.

Interviewed by Sunday’s Zaman, Goksel expressed his surprise at the proportion of the Armenians who came from different places in Turkey. “Probably 80 percent of the people I met in Armenian villages in the middle of nowhere would be from [the eastern Turkish provinces of] Mus, Diyarbakır, etc. that made me see the magnitude of the problem,” he said

Speaking about border opening, Gokseluld underlined that “it would be a victory for any Armenian politician to preside over the opening of the border.”