Armenian minister turns down Turkish PM’s genocide idea

Mediamax news agency
9 Mar 05

Yerevan, 9 March: Armenian Foreign Minister Vardan Oskanyan today
rejected the proposal by the Turkish prime minister, Recep Tayyip
Erdogan, for historians of both countries to study jointly the issue
of the genocide of Armenians in 1915.

In reply to a question from Mediamax, he said: “We have made our
position known many times. Historians have already said their word
and Turkey should determine its stance on this. There is nothing that
historians can do here.

[Passage omitted: Recep Tayyip Erdogan, called for impartial study
of the alleged genocide of Armenians under Turkish Ottoman rule,
reported details]