As always, Ankara remains the evil character in the recognition of the Armenian Genocide.

This is what adviser of the European Parliament’s Foreign Relations Committee Paolo Bergamaschi wrote in the Italian Gazzetta di Mantova newspaper following his visit to Armenia, Artsakhpress reports. The article reads as follows: “Many Europeans, especially the representatives of the extreme right-wing movement, deny the evidence or try to distort history unsuccessfully any chance they get.

Reputable representative of Armenia’s civil society, Richard Giragossian, believes the first step for reconciliation will be the normalization of relations between Yerevan and Ankara, which will be followed by the opening of borders and the establishment of diplomatic relations. However, Turkey continues to dodge the fulfillment of its obligations assumed with Armenia following the historic meeting of the Presidents of Turkey and Armenia in Yerevan in 2008.

“Healing that wound is in Ankara’s interests,” Giragossian mentions, adding that the closed border hinders Turkey’s economic development in the northeast areas.

The discussions on the Armenian Genocide show that the international community hasn’t been capable of learning the lessons from the past.

…In the distant horizon, from the other side of the glass window at the airport, the snow-covered peaks of Big and Small Masis appear from the clouds. They are close, but the closed border is in the middle. On the other side of the border is a part of the nation that can’t and must never be eliminated because it is a part of the history of mankind, whether Ankara likes it or not.”