SCHOLAR OF “GENOCIDE” CLAIMS MEETS WITH BAYKAL
Turkish Press
March 22 2005
Justin McCarthy from Louisville University, an expert on the Armenian
“genocide” claims, yesterday met with opposition Republican People’s
Party (CHP) leader Deniz Baykal and Parliament Speaker Bulent Arinc.
Baykal stressed the importance of rectifying a “great deception” on
this issue, adding, “We want to make sure the debate will move away
from a political framework to a scholarly one based on historical
documents.” Arinc also said that Turkey is ready to make available
every document in its possession on Armenians and that it has never
committed a genocide. McCarthy added, “There was a war in eastern
Anatolia during World War I, not a genocide campaign against the
Armenians in the region.” Stressing that the Armenian accusations
of genocide were illogical, McCarthy said Turkey was one of the most
important countries in the world and a model country in its region.
He also emphasized that resolutions taken by several countries’
parliaments concerning the Armenian genocide claims were politically
motivated. /Hurriyet/
From: Emil Lazarian | Ararat NewsPress