A key figure behind the scenes on reconciliation efforts between Turkey and Armenia, Samson Özararat, says Turkish Foreign Minister Ahmet Davutoğlu’s statement calling the 1915 deportation of Armenians inhumane was very important, Hürriyet Daily News reports on Friday.
Özararat argues however that Armenia has lost confidence in Turkey following the failure to approve the protocols that would lead to normalization, due to what he said was a change in Ankara’s policy.
An Armenian from Turkey’s central Anatolian province of Konya, Samson Özararat has been one of the key figures in every effort to bring Turkey and Armenia closer in the last 20 years, the news agency informs.
Özararat praises Turkish FM's statement on Armenian genocide
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