Andranik Israyelyan
Turkey’s Ahmet Davutoğlu has proposed to solve the Armenian Genocide
question by creating a “just memory.” The assessment of the concept
reveals why it is simply a denialist tactic.
In 2011, then-foreign minister of Turkey Ahmet Davutoğlu called on
Armenians to address the Genocide question through a concept he termed
“just memory.” It is “unjust” to place these traumatic events at the
center of everything, Davutoğlu noted in the Turkish Policy Quarterly article. A Guardian article
later insisted that Armenians (and indeed Christians) were not the only
ones to have suffered during this period. “While much of western
history tells of the suffering of the dispossessed and dead Ottoman
Christians, the colossal sufferings of Ottoman Muslims remains largely
unknown outside of Turkey.” The author went on to insist that Turkey had
proposed a joint commission in an effort to allow the emergence of a
so-called “just memory.”
