"Focus on 1915 and the Turkish version
Sunday, March 6, 2005
ANKARA � Turkish Daily News
Armenians claim 1.5 million Armenians living in eastern Anatolia were killed as part of a genocide campaign at the hands of the late Ottoman Empire, a charge categorically denied by Turkey.
In a speech at a February meeting of the Turkish-EU Joint Parliamentary Committee in Strasbourg, S�kr� Elekdag, a former diplomat and currently a deputy from the opposition Republican People's Party (CHP), said the Armenian allegation of genocide, when assessed under the U.N. Convention for the Prevention and the Repression of the Crime of Genocide, �irrefutably falls.� He said Armenians, for the last nine decades, �were not able to disclose any direct evidence' proving that the Ottoman government took action against the Armenians with the intent to destroy them partly or wholly."
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