It is possible to write the impartial history of the events in Ottoman Turkey in 1915-1923. However, the essence is not in the number of Armenians killed and deported, but in half of the population of Western Armenia being annihilated, professor Mikhail Meyer, the Director of the Institute of Asian and African Studies of Moscow State University stated in Yerevan at a meeting in the South Caucasian branch of the Caucasus Democracy Institute development foundation. In his words, there was no term genocide in WWI, however it changes nothing. "Turkey has to reconsider its attitude to the Armenian Genocide. Delay of the process will entail negative consequences for the country itself,» the famous Russian specialist of Turkic science said, when answering a question of PanARMENIAN.Net. In his words, Turkey fears not so much of territorial claims by Armenia, as compensation of material and moral damage. «No economy can bear that compensation,» Meyer remarked. As of parallels with Germany, which paid compensation to Holocaust victims, Meyer remarked, «not all prisoners of concentration camps got compensations.»

At that the professor remarked the process of liberalization of Turkey on the way to EU membership is not so fast. «I think the EU will nevertheless stipulate accession by recognition of the fact of the Armenian Genocide. EU representatives should be taken to the Genocide Museum to see what actually happened in 1915,» he remarked.