Thanks to a kind of strange Turkish exceptionalism, military generals should speak every day so that people will see their intellectual caliber and so the army's meddling with politics will no longer be tolerated, Ihsan Yilmaz, observer of Sunday's Zaman, wrote in an article he titled "Armenians and our speaking prime minister".

The article goes on: "After seeing that our generals are also mere mortals, the people will know they are not super-humans and that in some exceptional cases, quite the contrary may also be true. In addition to my abovementioned strange undemocratic offer, here is the second one: Our prime minister should speak less, for the sake of our democracy and for the well-being and prosperity of our country and nation. All right, I loved "one minute," and I still do, but when it comes to spontaneous reactions, our prime minister is very rarely that lucky. I can list here several examples of how he inflicted himself and democratic forces in society harm by his spontaneous and definitely unnecessary reactions. That is why, knowing this weakness of the prime minister, his opponents everywhere try to provoke him."

"The last incident is his unfortunate - maybe misunderstood - remark on illegal Armenians immigrants who have been working in Turkey illegally, numbering up to 20,000 people. To date, the Turkish state has turned a blind eye to their existence as a good gesture and sign of goodwill. It is also known that Turkey has helped Armenia when they had food shortages, etc. The prime minister warned Armenia last week that Turkey may send these illegal workers back. Speaking to journalists in Africa, President Abdullah Gul said the prime minister was misunderstood and so on. Even this sufficiently shows that there is something troubling in the remarks of the prime minister," it says. "I have been thinking about the classic Turkish counterattack of threatening the US with the closure of the US military base in Incirlik, Turkey, as a reaction to the US congressmen's annual threats to pass a resolution to condemn Turkey because of what happened back in 1915 that have never arrived at a conclusion. But I think if politics pollutes everything it touches, if these canny American politicians touch anything, they pollute it twice. No, I will not mention the redskins, the forefathers of the American Indians! But, the US politicians can start with the massacres in Iraq, Afghanistan, Bush, neocons, etc., and then continue going back. When the buck stops at 1915, they can question Turkey. But, saying this does not negate the ultimate truth that Turkey has to face what happened in 1915. And we should do this without any foreign pressure."

In conclusion, the author remarked that instead of constantly speaking, Turkey can simply declare that it is ready to give everything back to their rightful and legal owners if they can produce documents or the state is able to find the records in the archives. Doing this, according to him, does not mean that Turkish politicians accept the Armenian Genocide but "it would simply substantiate our claims to morality, ethics and, above all, humanity."