"Turkey calls for impartial study of Armenian genocide claims
Published: 3/8/2005
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ANKARA - Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan on Tuesday called for an unbiased study by historians of claims that millions of Armenians were the victims of genocide under Ottoman rule during World War I.
'We have already opened our archives to those who claim there was genocide. If they are sincere, they should also open their archives,' Erdogan told a press conference here after talks with opposition leader Deniz Baykal. "
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