Turkish FM Opens the Armenian Conference
24 August 2005
JTW
Kemalcan YUREKLI (JTW) ISTANBUL - A conference on Armenians, which was postponed due to sharp reactions in the media and the Turkish public, has been rescheduled for September 23-25 at Bosporus University in Istanbul. [...]. The rector invited Gul to make opening ceremony of the conference and FM and Deputy Prime Minister Abdullah Gul accepted the invitation, Hurriyet reports.
The participants in the Armenian conference will include professors from Bosporus and Sabanci Universities, as well as Turkish academics from Turkey and around the world.
Lasting two days, with 12 sessions, and featuring the participation of 38 academics, the conference will have panels like "Deportation and Massacre," "Disaster and Rescue Stories," "Memories and Witnessnes," "Things the World Knew that Turkey did not Know."
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JTW
Kemalcan YUREKLI (JTW) ISTANBUL - A conference on Armenians, which was postponed due to sharp reactions in the media and the Turkish public, has been rescheduled for September 23-25 at Bosporus University in Istanbul. [...]. The rector invited Gul to make opening ceremony of the conference and FM and Deputy Prime Minister Abdullah Gul accepted the invitation, Hurriyet reports.
The participants in the Armenian conference will include professors from Bosporus and Sabanci Universities, as well as Turkish academics from Turkey and around the world.
Lasting two days, with 12 sessions, and featuring the participation of 38 academics, the conference will have panels like "Deportation and Massacre," "Disaster and Rescue Stories," "Memories and Witnessnes," "Things the World Knew that Turkey did not Know."
[...]
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.
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