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Study of Armenian deaths is urged
Items compiled from Tribune news services
Published March 9, 2005
ANKARA, TURKEY — Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan on Tuesday
called for an impartial study by historians of claims that more than
1 million Armenians were slaughtered by Turkish troops in a genocide
during and after World War I.
“We have opened our official archives to those people who claim there
was genocide,” the Turkish leader said.
Armenians say 1.5 million of their kin perished between 1915 and 1923
at the hands of Ottoman Turks.