The Scientific and Technological Research Council of Turkey (TÜBİTAK) has examined the history textbooks used in Armenia’s schools. As reports Turkey’s Haberturk, the results of the study have been submitted with a special report. As reports ermenihaber.am, TÜBİTAK has particularly focused on how the Armenian Genocide is presented in Armenian history textbooks and has stated that the Turks are referred to as “the enemy” and “the perpetrator of genocide”.

Head of the Department of Armenian Language and Literature at Yildirim Beyazit University of Turkey, Professor Yildiz Devec Bozkus has also conducted a special survey of Armenian schoolchildren and states that most of the authors of Armenian history textbooks support the impartial description of the events.

Bozkus also emphasizes that, for instance, over the past 10 years, some mitigation is noticed in Turkish textbooks. Whereas the expression “so-called Armenian Genocide” was used in the past, one can now see the expressions “events of 1915”, “just remembrance”, “regulation”, “message of condolence” and “commemoration ceremonies” in the new textbooks.

According to Bozkus, it is necessary to review the content in the history textbooks of both countries and remove descriptions presenting the people of the countries as “foreigners” to schoolchildren in order to promote the normalization of relations between Turkey and Armenia.

The results of the Turkish professor’s studies will soon be presented in a book entitled “The Image of Turks in Armenian History Textbooks”.