Gül welcomes controversial conference on Armenian issue

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'We will not step back from explaining our thesis and opinions on all platforms with our heads held high. We don't have any hesitations nor do we have a complex within this context,’ says Foreign Minister Gül concerning the Armenian allegations
ANKARA - Turkish Daily News

  Turkey should not hesitate to use all available platforms, including an upcoming international conference to be held in Istanbul, for expressing its views concerning Armenian charges of genocide instead of merely remaining silent, Foreign Minister Abdullah Gül has said.

  Gül was referring to an international conference on the Armenian issue originally slated for May but postponed after politicians criticized the conference and its participants for having ideas and beliefs counter to Turkey's official stance on Armenian genocide allegations.

  Earlier this week organizers of the conference at Istanbul's prestigious Bog<breve>aziçi and Sabanc? universities announced that it would convene Sept. 23-25.

  Daily Hürriyet reported yesterday that Gül had accepted an invitation from Bog<breve>aziçi University Rector Ays¸e Soysal to deliver the opening speech at the conference.

  Gül conditionally agreed to attend the conference if his schedule permits when he was invited by Soysal a month ago, Foreign Ministry spokesman Nam?k Tan confirmed yesterday at a daily press briefing. Tan, however, noted that Gül would be in New York for the 60th U.N. General Assembly on the same dates and thus he might be unable to attend the entire conference.

  
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Professor Lewy Blows So-Called Armenian Genocide Allegations
By Anadolu News Agency (aa)
Published: Monday, August 29, 2005
zaman.com

The famous US Political Scientist Professor, Guenter Lewy, announced that documents and interpretations related to the three main plots forming the base of the so-called Armenian genocide allegations were at least suspicious and the allegations never proved that Armenian murders from the beginning of the last century were pre-planned.

Professor Lewy, who studies at the Massachusetts University, wrote in his article titled “revisiting the Armenian Genocide� that has been published in the fall edition of the Middle East Quarterly: “Most of those who maintain that Armenian deaths were premeditated and so constitute genocide base their argument on three pillars: the actions of Turkish military courts of 1919-20, which convicted officials of the Young Turk government of organizing massacres of Armenians, the role of the so-called "Special Organization" accused of carrying out the massacres, and the Memoirs of Naim Bey which contain alleged telegrams of Interior Minister Talât Pasha conveying the orders for the destruction of the Armenians.� Lewy emphasized that when examined in detail, those allegations were far from proving genocide claims. Initially, dealing with the military courts that were established during the last Ottoman government when Istanbul was under English occupation, Lewy accused Talat Pasha, Enver Pasha and Cemal Pasha, who took over the country during World War I, for the deaths of Armenians. Professor Lewy wrote that even the British High Commissar Calthorpe wrote in a message sent to London that those courts, like a rough comedy, harmed their prestige. The Famous political scientist also referring to the memories of Naim Bey, recalled that Dutch historian Erik Zurcher, proved that those documents that spread across the world by an Armenian called Aram Andonyan were false.

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What I've been saying all along. We need to take the bull by the horns and begin fighting these ridiculous allegations. The longer we keep silent the more lies are spread.