Open letter denounces plan to name border crossing after Talaat Pasha
We express our deep concern and disappointment regarding the recent proposal introduced in the Turkish Parliament to rename the border crossing between Turkey and Armenia after Talaat Pasha, the principal architect of the Armenian Genocide. As Minister of the Interior of the Ottoman Empire, Talaat Pasha played a leading role in orchestrating the planned extermination of over 1.5 million Armenians, alongside the destruction of more than 2,000 churches, the erasure of entire communities and the forced displacement of millions from their ancestral homeland.
Naming a place of passage and potential reconciliation after a figure so closely associated with the organized mass killing of a people is not only profoundly insensitive—it is an affront to the values of human dignity, historical truth and moral accountability. Such an act risks legitimizing the crimes of the past, further deepening wounds that have never fully healed.
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If Turkey indeed renames its part of the border crossing after this bloodthirsty Armenian Genocide perpetrator, then Armenia should never open its land border to Turkey and should rename its part of the border crossing after Soghomon Tehlirian, who got rid of that pest. Simple as that. Armenia doesn’t have to tolerate the incessant threats, provocations and humiliations by Turkey and Azerbaijan, which it is enduring for years, just because these two Armenian Genocide perpetrators have much bigger populations and militaries.
Can you please provide a link to a source which claims this has been proposed by the Turkish Parliament?
Any Armenian who agrees with this and uses this ‘entry’ belongs in the same place as the heartless souls of the Young Turks.
To usher in a new era of cooperation between Turkey and Armenia, it is important to avoid using historical figures, who evoke deep negative emotions, as names to connect the two countries border. The goal should be to promote mutual respect and collaboration, not to deepen existing tensions or hatred.
Quite so and not deliberately using coincidental dates either for important events
Turkey reminds me of the person that has no compassion or integrity in their actions. They do it only because it is perceived as politically expedient but not because they believe in reconciliation or anything remotely connected to being good neighbors.
This attempt to name a border crossing after an individual who committed a crime of the lowest form of human existence is yet another example.
Lesson to be learned … watch your back with these jackals.