In the post, "Pamuk, say you are sorry," I quoted Turkey's Justice Minister Cemil Cicek (Jemil Chichek) urging Turkey's most famous novelist, Orhan Pamuk, to apologize for accepting the Armenian genocide.

"Why didn't he come out and say: 'I never said such a thing.'" Cicek asked.

Because lying will not be the answer to all of your problems, Mr. Cicek !!!!!!

Truly,
Maral

A friend of mine, Maral Der Ohanesian, more liked the quote "Why didn't he come out and say: 'I never said such a thing' " from the same Cicek in the same article. Maral responds to the Justice Minister, "Because lying will not be the answer to all of your problems, Mr. Cicek! "

In Turkey's political culture of denial lying, perhaps, is the best way around. And the call to deny comes from the JUSTICE Minister, a denialist-in-chief of the Armenian genocide.