Experts say that opening up archives for study and establishing a joint historical committee could end more than a century of animosity between Ankara and Yerevan.
For years, Türkiye has been calling for the establishment of a joint commission of historians and the opening of the archives to study the events of 1915. /Photo: TRT World
The only way to depoliticise the issue is to open the archives of both sides , says Mathew Bryza, a political analyst who was the US mediator between Armenia and Azerbaijan in the 2000s. Bryza says that some of the archives are related to the Armenian insurgent group Dashnaktsutyun. The archives are now in the US city of Watertown, Massachusetts.
According to Bryza, ANCA strongly opposes such a move because it knows that the archives contain records that will undercut the story they have been telling for the last century. Dissenting voices among the diaspora are also important, showing we have already reached a certain level of normalisation, says Yildiz Deveci-Bozkus, Professor in Humanities at Ankara University.for the first time just days before the anniversary of the events on April 24, instead of claiming that there was a deliberate intention to kill Armenians on the part of the Ottoman Empire.
Deveci-Bozkus feels that with both countries closer than ever to normalisation of ties, “the archive can be one of the most important steps towards solving this problem”.
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