The concept of “shared pain” last avatar of Turkish diplomacy to circumvent the recognition of the Armenian genocide has just been dealt a fresh onslaught with two conferences Hasan Cemal in Paris. A Ankara’s proposal to put on an equal footing Armenian “pain” and that of the Turkish populations in the Great War, the little son of Djemal Pasha, a prominent member of the Young Turk triumvirate organizing the crime, opposes his will to recognize the genocide, which is a way of sharing the pain Armenian. No arrangements without haggling or unworthy negotiations. Very well.

This debate on the pain remains somewhat strange. It goes without saying that Turkish civilians suffered, like so many others during the First World War. As the Germans during the second, especially in the end. Nobody denies that. Nobody denies that many Turks were expelled forcibly from the plain of Ararat or Zanguezur in the very specific context of post-genocide. Nobody disputes that the Turks were expelled from the Balkans. Nor forget either they have been installed in homes and Armenian villages abandoned … But the attempt to establish a symmetry on the theme of “pain” between that experienced by the Turks and that of Armenians clearly a diversionary tactic to drown the very singular specificity of the genocidal enterprise in a mishmash sentimental, whose function escapes no subterfuge.

In the discussion that followed the Hasan Cemal conference Oct. 27 at the EHESS, Anahit Ter Minassian historian questioned due to the meaning of this notion of “pain,” which is part of a compassionate typology not political. And it is a fact that genocide is no longer productive physical pain to people. The damage is done. This is in contrast constitute oppression, aggression and violation of human dignity is the State denial of Turkey not only throws salt on the wound, but fanned the embers by launching a public accusation of fraud and deceit against an entire community. Here’s a bonus, in the form of defamation, contempt too.

Provided the crime against humanity of 1915 is not only a source of unhappiness. It calls for repairs and opens on rights. Pain or non-pain of the Armenian people will look elsewhere than him. It does not need to respond. It requires no tears, but justice. Compassion is not a substitute for compensation. Time empathy for victims happened. The fight for the defense of their memory remains. He participated in the struggle for the preservation of Armenia, for the freedom of Nagorno-Karabakh, the recognition of the genocide by the Turkish state and justice for the Armenian entity.

In 1975, a combatant organizations stated in his birth certificate, “the stage of the unhappy consciousness concerns us.” It goes without saying that 40 later step of apitoiements appears especially as obsolete. It is in the political field of justice and peace in the region is expected the Turkish state. And it is in this book that the righteous of this country must take responsibility, like many elsewhere have already begun to do so by signing the petition are all a dream , which finally initiates a step in the right direction.

Ara Toranian