Turkish Daily News
March 12 2005
Germany says archives open to all
Saturday, March 12, 2005
Ankara – Turkish Daily News
The German Embassy in Ankara announced that all documents in German
archives relating to the Armenians were open to everybody.
“All of the German official archives belonging to the pre-1945 era
are open for any research,” the embassy said. “Those documents — in
the political archives section of the German Foreign Ministry — have
a significant importance since Germany had intensive diplomatic and
military relations with its ally the Ottoman Empire at that time.”
Turkey is keen to conduct a joint study for full access to state
archives both in Turkey and Armenia to settle the argument once and
for all; however, Armenian Foreign Minister Vardan Oskanyan, in an
interview with Reuters, reiterated that Armenia rejected a Turkish
proposal for an impartial panel of historians to test Armenian claims
that their people suffered a genocide at the hands of Ottoman Turkey.
Turkish daily Milliyet reported that a symposium to be funded by
the Foreign Ministry was scheduled to be held on May 28 in Turkey to
discuss so-called genocide allegations attended by a number of
Turkish and foreign experts.
From: Emil Lazarian | Ararat NewsPress