Turkish Daily News
Friday, March 11 2005

>>From the Columns:

‘It seems we’re waking up’

Hürriyet’s Oktay Ekºi commented on the Armenian issue and said that
Parliament has launched a campaign against the last three items
supporting the Armenian genocide claims.

After congratulating the CHP and the AKP on their move, Ekºi says
that one of the items used to support the claim is a telegraph
message that allegedly belonged to Gen. Talat Paºa. Talat Paºa was a
military official in charge of one of the regions where the Armenians
lived. This message was proven to have been spurious.

The second item is a memorandum from Hans J. Morgenthau (a
prominent German-born American scientist) who was the U.S. ambassador
to the Ottoman Empire when the alleged genocide is claimed to have
taken place. Contradictions between official reports Morgenthau sent
to Washington and a memorandum, typed by his assistant of Armenian
origin, proves that the memorandum is invalid, said Ekºi.

Now Turkey is aiming to disprove the validity of a 1916 publication
from the British Parliament called “The Treatment of Armenians in the
Ottoman Empire, 1915-1916,” otherwise known as the “Blue Book,” said
Ekºi, adding, the book was published as an act of propaganda by the
British propaganda bureau.

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