Wednesday, May 11, 2005

[ www.armenialiberty.org ] Turkish Scholar Uses Armenian Archives For Ottoman History Research

"Turkish Scholar Uses Armenian Archives For Ottoman History Research

By Gayane Danielian

Yeftan Turkyilmaz is the first and so far the only Turkish scholar given access to Armenia�s state archives and he believes the reason for that is more simple than one might think.

�There are no people in Turkey who can work with these archives,� the young doctoral candidate explains in perfect Armenian. �I just don�t know of any other Turkish scholar who speaks Armenian. That is the main obstacle.� "

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