“If you want an ugly reminder of the past to stay there, you shouldn't throw a fit whenever someone brings it up. This is a lesson Turkey ought to learn sometime,” reads Tim Giannuzzi’s article in Calgary Herald.

Being one of free and well-developed democratic states in Muslim world, Turkey still "has a very large skeleton in its closet, to which the world community is showing a growing attention despite the titanic efforts to have people bury it in oblivion. It is the Armenian Genocide that became a thorn in Turkey’s flesh.

The Armenian Genocide was perpetrated in the beginning of last century — in 1915, but that was a pervasive policy of Ottoman Empire to extermination Armenians as the ethnos. The killing of over 1.5 million Armenians is now rejected by Turkey, while as many as 44 U.S. states recognized the Armenian Genocide as the fact occurred in 1915 and 1923; international organizations such as European Parliament, Council of Europe, World Council of Churches, Human Rights Association, European Alliance of YMCA, Permanent People’s Tribunal and Mercosur, plus recent adoption of the relevant motion by the U.S. House Committee on Foreign Affairs, as well as Swedish and Catalonian Parliaments.

Turkey probably fears of the contribution it will have to pay to the relatives of the tragedy victims while that’s not the case with this issue at all.

S.T.