Turkish Foreign Minister Ahmet Davutoglu has encouraged Armenia and its community to make steps similar to the once Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan had made for the Commemoration Day over the 1915 tragedy, Hurriyet Daily News reports.
The minister said that Erdogan’s actions were dictated by the need for “transformation of minds and memories.” He believes that politicians and intellectuals should breach the psychological barrier between the two countries.
Davutoglu stated that there was “unfair memory” around the events of 1915 and both Armenians and Turks should respect the historical memory in order to gain understanding of what the nations had had to go through. The minister reminded that there had been many tragic events in 1915 and that the times before and after 1915 had been tragic for Turks in Anatolia as well.
