ABSTRACT
Post-genocide reconciliation and the attendant matters pertaining to indemnification involve more than mere domestic political and economic liberalization in Turkey. Two fundamental principles are essential for the removal of barriers to post-genocide reconciliation: truth and justice. There has been a growing interest in efforts toward Armenian-Turkish reconciliation, an issue of fundamental significance for the Armenian people, who ninety years ago fell victim to the Young Turk policy of genocide. Reconciliation between Turks and Armenians became the subject of much heated debate after the establishment of the Turkish-Armenian Reconciliation Commission in 2001 in the form of "unofficial" Track Two Diplomacy. Reconciliation construed as international human rights with bilaterally shared "goal events" confers legitimacy upon the agencies established for that purpose. International human rights law as developed under the united nation Charter and the International Bill of Rights has acquired the same status and "binding character as other international law and agreements
