Rick Gladstone
Behind
the Turkish government’s denials of the century-old Armenian genocide
lurks the possibility that survivors and their descendants could be
deemed legally entitled someday to financial reparations, perhaps worth
tens of billions of dollars or more.
The
Turkish authorities take the position that there is nothing that needs
to be repaid. Moreover, no judicial mechanism exists in which claims of
such magnitude, from events 100 years ago, could be litigated. But
Armenian activists have nonetheless increasingly focused on the issue of
compensation in recent years.
