Armenian 'genocide': Probe sought
Wednesday 12 January 2005
Aljazeera
"I think we historians, Turkish, American, French, British and Armenian, must come together and form a commission to investigate this issue objectively," Yusuf Halacoglu, head of the Turkish Historical Society, said on Wednesday.
Halacoglu said the commission would ideally work under the auspices of the United Nations or another international body to help ensure impartiality and to encourage all states concerned to open up their archives to the panel.
He was due to discuss his research on the period on Wednesday with Foreign Minister Abdullah Gul and said he hoped for official Turkish backing for a commission.
Note: Above are excerpts from the article. The full article appears here. Clarifications and comments by me are contained in {}. Deletions are marked by [...]. The bold emphasis is mine.
Aljazeera
"I think we historians, Turkish, American, French, British and Armenian, must come together and form a commission to investigate this issue objectively," Yusuf Halacoglu, head of the Turkish Historical Society, said on Wednesday.
Halacoglu said the commission would ideally work under the auspices of the United Nations or another international body to help ensure impartiality and to encourage all states concerned to open up their archives to the panel.
He was due to discuss his research on the period on Wednesday with Foreign Minister Abdullah Gul and said he hoped for official Turkish backing for a commission.
Note: Above are excerpts from the article. The full article appears here. Clarifications and comments by me are contained in {}. Deletions are marked by [...]. The bold emphasis is mine.
posted by Vahe Balabanian at 6:40 PM
1 Comments:
THat's politics, whatever they can say or whatever reasons they give - that's purely politics. It's like when a bank speaks on the people's income, bonuses traveling treats, it is just to sell a credit card. Clever man is the one who can invent a brilliant pretext.
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