I would like to start this letter with a word of genuine appreciation and gratitude. As a new reader of the online version of your newspaper, I congratulate you for your impartiality and code of morals. Articles and editorials published recently in The Baltic Times about the accession of Turkey to the European Union possess a dose of objectivity and prudence many of media representatives lack and abandon nowadays.
Case in point is your editorial "Turkey Must Face the Truth" (TBT #437), where a dissection of the PROBLEM of Turkey's accession to Europe was concluded with the finest tools of analysis.
What upsets Turkey most is when people talk about its past from which it helplessly strives to escape. That discontent instantaneously matures into neurotic episodes of torment, when third parties bring up the issue of Armenian Genocide. The letter to the editor (TBT #439) by Sanivar Kizildeli, ambassador of Turkey to Latvia, is a solid manifestation of that obsessive behavior. It's the Turkish mentality, as you rightly highlighted, that pops up again.
No need to comment on the content of the Turkish official's letter 's a plethora of the finest masterpieces of history-fabrication. Your editorial already scrutinized the denialist policy of Turkey. As a descendent of the millions that perished in the first genocide of the 20th century at the hand of Turkish murderers, or otherwise were rendered to helpless erosion in the sands of the Syrian desert, I once again thank you for your noble stand. As Armenians we wish that the Baltic states follow the lead of your newspaper and a number of states and organizations by properly addressing the issue and recognizing the Armenian Genocide, as a gesture of respect to the innocent victims and as a service to justice and humanity.
Levon Avedanian
Sherbrooke, Canada
