Thursday, June 16, 2005

TURKEY ESCALATES INTERNATIONAL WAVE OF ARMENIAN GENOCIDE DENIAL

A1PLUS.AM 14:31:18 16-06-2005 Politics

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In recent weeks, Erdogan has dramatically raised the stakes in his government's campaign to deny the Armenian Genocide [...]
  1. Blocking the first-ever Armenian Genocide conference in Turkey [...].
  2. Spending over $1,000,000 to have Time Magazine include DVDs denying the Armenian Genocide [...].
  3. Pressing the U.S. government to withdraw the [...]"Constructive Dissent" award to U.S. Ambassador to Armenia John Evans for speaking the truth about the Genocide.
  4. Pressuring President Bush, during their June 8th White House meeting, to oppose the Armenian Genocide Resolution before Congress. This legislation (H.Res.316) was introduced on June 14th [...].
  5. Twisting arms at the State Department to continue to exclude any mention of the Armenian Genocide in the Department's official website's section on Armenian history. http://www.state.gov/r/pa/ei/bgn/5275.htm
  6. Imposing an effective "gag-rule," silencing any U.S. protests over Turkey's new Penal Code provision (Section 305) outlawing even the discussion of the Genocide.

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