Armenia's Ambassador to Switzerland, world famous chanson singer Charles Aznavour addressed the Armenian Genocide Centennial issue in an article in Le Monde.
It is noteworthy that Charles Aznavour addressed not the 100-year-old events, but the current policy of Turkey calling it, inherently, the continuation of the Ottoman Turkey's genocidal policy. Aznavour points at Ankara's refusal to ratify the Armenian-Turkish protocols to normalize the relations with Armenia. The ambassador thinks Turkey was behind the Islamic State militants' attack on the predominantly Armenian-populated Kessab in Syria and the destruction of the Armenian Genocide Martyrs' Memorial Church Deir ez-Zor , where hundreds of thousands of Armenians were massacred during the Genocide.
According to Aznavour, extermination of the Yazidi and other Christian minorities in the Middle East by the Islamic radicals is a result of the unrecognized Genocide of Armenians.
The ambassador thinks little has changed since 1915 in the global policy. Super powers continue to put their geopolitical interests above moral and ethics, he said, blaming them for the situation in the world. Aznavour said the Turkish authorities have concealed the truth about the dark page of their history from their own people for 100 years. He is sure the Turkish people will sooner and later learn the truth and accept their history.