Luiza Poghosyan did not call the Genocide a myth. She merely wanted to say that the myth is the conviction that the Genocide not being recognized by Turks hampers us in developing relations with Turkey. This is stated by a letter of Azeri participant of South Caucasus Alternative Alekper Aliyev, received by PanARMENIAN.Net. As we reported earlier, Aliyev has somehow distorted the text of the statement of editor of www.southcaucasus.com web-site Luiza Poghosyan at a six-sided meeting of citizens and NGOs of Armenia, Azerbaijan, Nagorno Karabakh, Georgia, Abkhazia and South Ossetia, held in Yerevan July 8-13.
Aliyev interpreted her words as, “The myth on genocide, we are stuffed with, has become a complex for the Armenian society and made it sick. We raise our children in hatred towards Turks. In this case Turks for us are Turkey and Azerbaijan. We are told we won a war, however, actually our entire region lost, specifically we lost. No development is observed, nothing good is taking place. How long can this hatred propaganda last? We cannot work for the future, constantly thinking retrospectively.”
“It turned out that I misunderstood Luiza’s first sentence. Luiza Poghosyan was saying a totally different thing. I exacted it from my friends, who participated in that meeting. I ask Armenian people’s and my friend’s pardon!» Alekper Aliyev writes.
