Thursday, December 22, 2005

Turkish Daily News - You cannot legislate history

"You cannot legislate history
Thursday, December 22, 2005

A case has been filed in Massachusetts concerning the way the 'Armenian genocide' is taught in schools. The plaintiffs, including a bright student, argue that teaching just the Armenian side of the story and omitting the Turkish side from textbooks is depriving students of their right to have the whole picture, especially when there are respectable historians such as Bernard Lewis, Justin McCarthy and Guenter Lewy who have dissenting views on the events of 1915. "

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