June 29, 2006 - 19:25 AMT
Levon Melik-Shahnazaryan: Armenian Genocide Committed Not by Muslims but Turks
Islam is really a great religion and like other world religions it does not accept the term «genocide», political scientist Levon Melik-Shahnazaryan told a PanARMENIAN.Net reporter, when commenting on a statement of Turkish PM that there is no concept of genocide in Islam. «However, being an experienced politician, Erdogan deliberately shifts accents. Not Muslims, but Turks committed the Armenian Genocide, and not Muslims, but Turks will have to answer for those murderous deeds. Erdogan's attempt to charge the whole Muslim world for the Armenian Genocide is futile. The political scientist reminded that Armenian remember well «how Muslims: Iranians and Arabs saved the remaining populations of unprotected Armenian villages from Turkish yataghans.»