Section about Turks to open at Genocide Museum-Institute – Radikal

Armenian Genocide Museum-Institute will open a section dedicated to the Turks who helped Armenians during the forcible displacement and massacres, the Turkish Radikal reported, saying it was stated by the Museum-Institute director Hayk Demoyan at the meeting with Turkish reporters.

Demoyan said the number of Turkish visitors of the museum has noticeably gone up since 2008. This year the museum had 100 Turkish visitors. “They ask how reliable the presented materials are,” he said, adding that nine out of ten visitors leave the museum convinced of the fact of genocide. “We have a Commemoration Book and people from Turkey have left their impressions there in Turkish. A 25-26 year old young man studying computer technology in Istanbul university even cried in our museum,” Demoyan said.

He convinced the Turkish journalists that the museum does not describe all the Turks as criminals. ‘It is not a museum telling about history of Armenians. It is a museum presenting memories of Armenians and Turks,’ he said.

Demoyan also said they have many documents about Turks and Muslims that helped Armenians.

‘Many Turks endangered their lives by helping Armenians. With the decree of the Ottoman Government the Turks who would dare to help Armenians would be hanged in front of their own homes,’ Demoyan reminded.