Tigran Sargsyan Quotes
… sooner or later the Armenian-Turkish relations will be normalized since closed borders between States is a non-sense in the 21st century, and rulers can find themselves in an unenviable position if they fail to keep up with the global developments.
The trauma of the Armenian Genocide together with the Turkish official position of denying that it was a genocide has stunted diplomatic relations between the countries since 1915. See {638436}, {639043} and {639039}.
Tigran Sargsyan, Prime Minister of Armenia, Conference on the topic of Armenia-Turkey relations and cross-border regionalism, February 12, 2010
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Mehmet Talaat Pasha was one of the national leaders who adopted the policy of extermination of the Armenians. The Christian Armenians, a minority in Turkey and its lands, were discriminated against like other non-Muslim minorities in the Ottoman Empire. But during the Turkish War with Russia, some Armenians defected and served on the Russian side. Many Turkish citizens took revenge on Armenians by means of murder and torture. Soon, the extermination of the Armenians became the official “Young Turk” government policy.
The Ottoman Turkish Young Turk Leadership tried to exterminate and/or ethnically cleanse the Armenians and did murder a large portion of the Armenian people in 1915.
Almost all former colonial nations resent the colonialism and tend to overlook some of the benefits. Like European colonialism, the Ottoman Empire brought many benefits and advancements to their subject peoples but the oppression is what is most remembered by future generations. Despite the terrible history of the Ottoman Empire in the Armenian Genocide and some other massacres, the Ottoman Empire had more than a 500 year influence on a great part of the world�Islamic and Christian – much of which was very valuable to the world even today.
Tigran Suren Sargsyan is an Armenian political figure who was Prime Minister of Armenia from 2008 to 2014. Previously he was Chairman of the Central Bank of Armenia from 1998 to 2008. After leaving office as Prime Minister, he served as Ambassador to the United States from 2014 to 2016 and as Chairman of the board of the Eurasian Economic Commission from 2016 to 2020.