Armenia and Turkey:

[Sari Galin]

Within that context, Armenians and Turks are seizing a chance to stop their futures being mortgaged to history. That includes the dispute about the Armenians’ demand that the Turks recognize their claims that there was genocide in the Ottoman Empire in 1915 that killed 1.5 million Armenians, many of them women and children. Turkey, which succeeded that empire in 1923, agrees that hundreds of thousands died as a result of massacres, forced marches, famine and disease, but it says that this was World War I, that many Turks were killed by Armenians and that the Armenian militia was openly aligned with the invading forces of the Ottomans’ enemy, the Russians.

It is not just the Armenian side that has to overcome bitterness.

Armenian attacks from 1973 to 1994 killed 42 members of the Turkish Foreign Ministry and their families all over the world. Turkey also closed its border with Armenia in sympathy with Azerbaijan during the 1988-94 Nagorno-Karabakh war, in which Armenians, seeking self-determination for that Armenian-majority enclave, seized more than 15 percent of Azerbaijan and drove more than 700,000 Azerbaijanis from their homes (more than 400,000 Armenians also fled or were driven from Azerbaijan).

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