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The New Anatolian - Historian: Assyrian genocide claims bogus

"Historian: Assyrian genocide claims bogus

The New Anatolian / Ankara
27 December 2006

Turkey is now being haunted by claims of an Assyrian genocide in 1915 during the country's relocations.

Bulent Ozdemir, head of the Turkish Historical Society's (TTK) Assyrian Studies Section, responded yesterday to a draft report by Dutch Christian Democrat parliamentarian Camiel Eurlings, in which she asserted that Turkey should accept Pontic Greek and Assyrian genocide claims, in addition to those by Armenians.
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