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TURKEY - ARMENIA JOURNALIST DIALOGUE PROGRAMME
OCTOBER 2016 YEREVAN, ARMENIA
I was very thrilled upon receiving this invitation, and could not miss the chance.
Because I am from Anatolia.
I had listened from my grandparents that they had friendships with Armenians,
they were neighbours, they had dinners/feasts together; and I wanted to see this.
What I did first was to discover our own dishes,
those which are common to both our cultures.
For example, I was really curious about "dolma".
I saw that they put mostly meat here than we do.
Besides, our fruit cultures are very similar.
Because in Anatolia we together with Armenians grew these fruits and vegetables,
had common dishes using them, became neighbours.
We liked one another very much.
I'm quite appalled regarding the cuisine,
because I was surprised by not encountering with the dishes even with the remotest similarity
to the Armenian dishes we eat or which I hunt for in Istanbul.
For example, I was really curious about "dolma",
because the Istanbul Armenian "dolma" is the one which I like a lot.
I was looking out for it.
But, there is no such "dolma" here.
They make it differently, in the first place it is made with meat, without any olive oil whatsoever.
And, for that matter, there are no olive orchards in Armenia.
Well, I had not thought of these things.
In the west, in Istanbul, influence of the palace cuisine,
the cosmopolitanism must have changed the Armenian cuisine.
Armenia is also one of the peoples who inhabits in Anatolia and with whom we lived together.
Just as I want to learn, see Jewish dishes,
so was I curious about the foods, memories, and also the cooking methods of Armenians in Armenia.
And I was really curious about Armenia as well.
I encountered something which did not fit at all into the preconceptions which I had formed before.
That was why I was taken aback at first.
What I expected was a poorer and a much more different country.
Yes, there is poverty and perhaps the economy is getting worse, but there is a standard.
This was very good for me to see.
Especially in Erivan, the capital, there is a great civilization, a great culture.
There is a respect for culture;
I saw that they hold in high esteem their poets, sculptors, composers and all such persons.
They preserve their culture so well; their monuments, their structures are so well preserved.
To be frank, I was sad about the heedlessness you find in Turkey.
I discovered that they were marvelous people.
I think Armenia is a very beautiful country.
I am hoping to visit there much more often in the future.
It gave me so much comfort. The people are sincere, earnest, trustworthy.
Erivan the capital is beautiful beyond words.
Especially when you enter nature, leave Erivan behind and go to the rural areas,
you see all the beauty of Armenia: deep valleys, great mountains surround you and mesmerize you.
We toured quite a lot within Armenia. I saw how life was lived in the remotest places.
I saw its villages, tasted its food.
I went to its capital, ate its foods in the capital, met people, talked to them and learn a lot.
I had a prejudice against what the common man's reaction would be when I said I was Turkish.
But when I came here I found out that such questions were simply unfounded.
Everytime I said that I was Turkish everyone showed me a great friendship.
Even if our languages are not the same, I was happy to see we did communicate heart to heart.
Turkey has a very different image of Armenia.
For example, among my close acquaintances who knew I was coming here,
there was a group who said: "they can be hostile to Turks there."
But no, there is no such thing.
That is why the community must be informed correctly.
Accomplishing this ought to be the media's vital function.
The media always plays a part. Us, we shall go, we shall write in our newspapers.
We shall tell everyone, we shall speak on television.
These are truly beneficial.
I think the Journalists' Dialogue Program is really important. I believe the media will have great effect.
Of course there is a lot of work for the peoples, the media, NGOs,
and also quite a lot to be done by the governments,
but, leaving aside the governments, NGOs have much work upon themselves.
NGOs working in every field …
NGOs working in politics, in culture, specialized in intangible cultural heritage…
Those which protect human rights … A lot is to be done by the youth.
I believe it is a good step that these interaction programs will keep on with increasing participation.
And what you are doing is a good gesture, a good start.
For these relations to develop, instead of state politics we need the peoples themselves interact,
get into direct contact, and only by means of sincerity, without resorting to quibbling,
above nations and religions, remembering that we are human can we develop this relation.
Governments need to warm to one another.
The communities do not have such a problem.
As I said before, when I said that I was a Turk, everyone approached me with a smile, with friendship.
So, if the governments also warm, this friendship will develop much faster.
Opening of the borders is for the benefit of both countries.
Both for commerce and tourism, and also for culture -
here is the place where Mount Ararat looks the most beautiful.
I was surprised.
I have gazed a lot at Mount Ararat from East Beyazıt but it never looks as magnificent as it does from here.
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