Lawyer: No country has acknowledged Armenian Genocide more appropriately than Turkey

Lawyer Gevorg Danielyan, a member of the Supreme Spiritual Council, emphasized the importance of legal precision when addressing the Armenian Genocide, arguing that no country has acknowledged it more formally than Turkey itself.

Referring to a recent article by former Foreign Minister Ara Aivazian, Danielyan agreed that public recognition of the genocide was internally driven, not influenced by foreign agendas. Aivazian also claimed that the perpetrators largely escaped justice due to the lack of international legal frameworks at the time.

In a social media post on Tuesday, Danielyan, however, stressed that Turkish military tribunals tried and convicted senior Ottoman officials for organizing mass extermination between 1919 and 1921. “Talaat Pasha, for example, was sentenced to death in absentia and lived in Germany under the alias Ali Bey," he wrote.

Danielyan also pointed out that while the term “genocide” didn’t exist yet, international laws like the 1907 Hague Conventions did provide legal grounds for prosecution. The lawyer highlighted that Turkey’s own judiciary documented the genocide, something modern Turkey continues to ignore.

“In fact, no country has acknowledged the Armenian Genocide more appropriately than Turkey itself because only Turkey’s own courts officially documented the facts. The real issue is that current Turkish authorities are trying to ignore the legally binding rulings issued by their judiciary,” Danielyan stressed.