“Can Turkey wish away the Armenians and their past, by denying historical facts? The answer is no,” Lebanese ‘The Daily Star’ reads, paralleling the similar problems. The daily underlines, that actions of Turkish Government led by Recep Tayyip Erdogan on “‘Kurdish initiative’ give the region a considerable amount of food for thought.” The previous Turkish policy is well known: to erase names of Kurdish villages, to ban the use of Kurdish language in certain territories and other ideological measures as a part of “Turkification” process.

The author supposes that “the old-style policies of ethnic &‘cultural cleansing’ in Palestine, as the obsession with having a Jewish state has led Israeli officials to introduce measures aimed at erasing the presence of the Palestinians from their own land.”

“Was it smart of Turkey to reject a recognition of the Kurds, one of the oldest peoples in the region, and the world’s biggest national group without a state?” the daily wonders, adding: “The same goes for the Israelis’ attempts to eliminate the presence of the Palestinians, as well as the calls by some to eliminate the Jewish presence in the Middle East.”

The newspaper refers to the situation in North Africa, speaking of Berbers as well as Iraq which “provides an example of non-state actors targeting ethnic and religious groups, such as Kurds, Turkmen and various Christian sects.”

Author of the article considers that Turkish policy of fierce and tough nationalism proves all these attempts doomed to fail.

However, optimism of the research can be welcomed, just as Erdogan’s policy on the Kurdish issue. But recalling Armenian issue and historical facts, Turkey to date advocated negation ideology and there was not a hint of free will, sincerity and consciousness. But for this Turkey undoubtedly needs courage, that Turkish Government obviously had only up to “Kurdish initiative.”