Quotes

[on new evidence for the Armenian Genocide] It is a telegram sent July 4, 1915. And the telegram says the following - are the Armenians who were deported from there being liquidated? Are the troublesome individuals whom you have reported as having been exiled and expelled been eliminated or merely sent off and deported? Please report honestly. So this is the telegram. And we knew the existence of such a telegram. It was quoted in several indictments and verdicts during the military tribunals in Istanbul. And I discovered the original with an Ottoman letterhead. This is the discovery. (...) I think the Turkish government must try or develop some new strategies to deny the Armenian Genocide. They cannot deny as they have been denying over the years. It is over now. There is no way to escape. They have to face this reality. This is a telegram with an Ottoman letterhead and with the Ottoman coding system. [April 24, 2017]

[on being a Turkish historian of the Armenian Genocide] I'm a historian. It is my job to educate a new generation on violence in the past so that this should not happen again in the future. The second important reason is my firm belief that democracy can only be established in Turkey if Turkey faces its own history. [April 24, 2017]