Turkey\u2019s Minister for European Affairs and chief EU negotiator Egemen Ba\u011f\u0131\u015f on Saturday said if the Armenian Genocide could be historically and scientifically substantiated, Turkey would apologize for it.<\/p>\n
As a guest on \u201cTalk to Al Jazeera<\/span><\/a><\/strong><\/span>,\u201d one of the most popular programs on the Al Jazeera English-language news station, Ba\u011f\u0131\u015f said Turkey would apologize if the Armenian Genocide was proven both historically and scientifically.<\/p>\n Responding to extensive questions regarding whether the Turkish government would recognize the 1915 incidents as genocide, Ba\u011f\u0131\u015f said, \u201cIf it is recognized as a reality approved both historically and scientifically, moreover, unanimously, then why not?\u201d He noted that every nation has dark moments in its history, asking, \u201cWould you be able to name a nation without any dark chapters or pains in its past?\u201d<\/p>\n He also noted that to prove if the incident amounted to genocide or not, first the disputed issue needs to be examined objectively. However, he said the Armenian government was not brave enough to confront its own history and refuses to disclose its historical archives, Today’s Zaman<\/span><\/a><\/span><\/strong> reports.<\/p>\n Referring to a bill adopted recently by the French Senate that makes it a crime to deny the Armenian Genocide, Ba\u011f\u0131\u015f said the bill was \u201cnull and void\u201d for Turkey.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Turkey\u2019s Minister for European Affairs and chief EU negotiator Egemen Ba\u011f\u0131\u015f on Saturday said if the Armenian Genocide could…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":157186,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tstyn_error":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[10372,13334,10790,16861],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/159101"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=159101"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/159101\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/157186"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=159101"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=159101"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=159101"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}