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Sunday, March 06, 2005

Turkish Daily News - Global Armenian campaign finally stings Turkish public

"Global Armenian campaign finally stings Turkish public
Sunday, March 6, 2005

The increasing public awareness follows silence pervading both the Turkish state and the public for a period of several decades, during which Armenians managed to get backing to their claims of genocide from several national parliaments

FATMA DEMIRELLI

ANKARA � Turkish Daily News

Columnists have been getting increasingly interested in the mounting Armenian allegations that their nation was subject to a genocide at the hands of the late Ottoman Empire; lawmakers in Parliament are drafting strategies to counter European pressure to �face truths� about Turkey's past; and Turkish scholars are trying to engage Armenian counterparts in a scientific debate on what happened in eastern Anatolia in 1915. The momentum emerging at all levels of society is a sign that the Turkish public is finally waking up to feel the rage of a decades-old campaign, launched by the powerful Armenian diaspora all across Europe and other continents in the world, blaming Turks for what Armenians called the �first genocide of the 20th century.�"

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