Thursday, September 29, 2005

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"TURKEY BROKEN OFF BETWEEN LIBERALS AND CONSERVATORS

Armenian Genocide conference has revealed contradictions in the Turkish government.
In spite of all the obstacles a scientific conference devoted to the Armenian Genocide of early XX century took place in Istanbul on September 24 – 25.
The conference was conducted against the background of mass protests; however the conference’s participants wish to understand their own country’s history. “We cannot allow the discussions to be limited to mutually contradicting opinions: whether the genocide took place or not. We should try to realize what happened in 1915”, stated a famous historian Halil Bektay."

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