INT’L CONFERENCE ON TURKISH-ARMENIAN RELATIONS COMMENCES IN ISTANBUL

March 16, 2006
AzerTaj

A 3-day international conference on topic “New Approaches In the Turkish-Armenian Relations” commenced in Istanbul, March 15, correspondent of AzerTAc reported.

24 historians from numerous world countries attend the conference held by the organizational support of Istanbul University. Despite of invitation of 4 Armenian scientists as well, they refused to take part at the conference.

Perhaps if the organizers worded the conference in a neutral and not an accusatory manner they would attend. But this is may be expecting too much from the organizers and it shows how biased they are. This bias makes the conference not worth attending.

The Conference will hold discussions around the so-called “Armenian genocide”. One of the lectures presented to the conferees is “The Armenian Problem and Safety on the South Caucasus”.

Scholars will focus the historical roots of the Armenia-Azerbaijan, Nagorno Karabakh conflict, as well as the question of invasion of the Azerbaijani lands.

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