YEREVAN. – The Turkish academic circles’ fraudulent propaganda against the genocide of the Armenians continues today, turkologist Lusine Sahakyan said at Tuesday’s discussion on the Armenian Genocide issue.

In her view, the genocide denial is a primary task of Ankara.

“They not only deny the fact of the Armenian Genocide, but everything related to Armenian history, everything that proves that Western Armenia was a part of the historical homeland of the Armenian nation,” stressed Sahakyan.

The turkologist added that the Turkish academic circles’ use the phrase “Eastern Anatolia” instead of Western Armenia.

“This [phrase] is unacceptable for us because it denies the fact of Armenians’ living in Western Armenia. (…) This is absurd; this means ‘east of the east,” Lusine Sahakyan stressed.