Armenians still feeling heat in Turkey, experts argue.

Armenians still feeling heat in Turkey, experts argue.(TZ).

Armenians still feeling heat in Turkey, experts argueTurkish public figures have argued that Armenians as well as other non-Muslim minorities are still feeling as an "outsider", a heavy burden for a country that seeks to become a democratic nation. 

Author Roni Margulies, speaking during a panel discussion in "Facing Genocide" Forum in İstanbul on Wednesday, said 99 percent of Turkish people, including the prime minister, is making minorities feel as an outsider.

Noting that he doesn't feel himself as a citizen in Turkey, Margulies said people in Turkey believe Armenians and Jews are controlling the world. 

Margulies said he "doesn't care about an apology" and that "all of us are Turks according to the Constitution." 

He added that this state is established as the state of Turks and that only 50-60,000 Armenians left in the country today. "This state has never viewed minorities as its own citizens," Margulies said.

Truth, Justice and Memory Center founder Özgür Sevgi Göral said in her speech that there is a political structure that puts "Turkishness" ahead of other ethnicities. She said "what we need to do is to prove it as a tangible crime while not making it extremely local."

About the Armenian genocide:

The American ambassador, Henry Morganthau Sr., was also outspoken. In his memoirs, the ambassador would write: “When the Turkish authorities gave the orders for these deportations, they were merely giving the death warrant to a whole race; they understood this well, and in their conversations with me, they made no particular attempt to conceal the fact.”