Thursday, March 15, 2007

Turkish, Armenian historians quarrel over failed study initiative

"Turkish, Armenian historians quarrel over failed study initiative
Turkish and Armenian historians remained at odds following the failure last week of a planned joint study into the World War I events in eastern Anatolia, which Armenians claim amounted to genocide.

Yusuf Halaçoğlu - Ara Sarafian
Yusuf Halaçoğlu, who heads the Turkish Historical Society (TTK), rejected accusations from British Armenian historian Ara Sarafian that their plans for a joint case study on the treatment of Armenians in Harput in eastern Anatolia in 1915 would not work because Halaçoğlu said he could not provide some of the documents he requested."

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