Even world guidebooks say of Genocide negation
13:26 / 03/19/2010
Reading a guidebook about Turkey you will hardly find any mention of Genocide, reads the article by Seth J. Frantzman — PhD researcher at Hebrew University, published in the Jerusalem Post daily. The author was utterly surprised discovering reference to Armenian Genocide and allusion of Armenians living once in Eastern Turkey in Lonely Planet’s Turkish guide nonexistent (one of the world leading guidebooks).
He emphasizes that Genocide denial is presented in the book as follows: “It was during this time of confusion and turmoil [World War I] that the Armenian scenario unfolded.” According to the author, “it is not the job of a travel guide to be an arbiter of history.”
Frantzman notes that the authors try to have conflict-free relations with authorities of the countries they have included. “With a magic wand the entire history of Armenians in Anatolia, which dates from the sixth century BCE, disappears,” the author says, adding that chapter about Turkey’s history is rewritten, having no mention about minorities, including Armenians, Assyrians and Greeks who disappeared between 1915 and 1922.
He emphasizes that Genocide denial is presented in the book as follows: “It was during this time of confusion and turmoil [World War I] that the Armenian scenario unfolded.” According to the author, “it is not the job of a travel guide to be an arbiter of history.”
Frantzman notes that the authors try to have conflict-free relations with authorities of the countries they have included. “With a magic wand the entire history of Armenians in Anatolia, which dates from the sixth century BCE, disappears,” the author says, adding that chapter about Turkey’s history is rewritten, having no mention about minorities, including Armenians, Assyrians and Greeks who disappeared between 1915 and 1922.
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