Xinhua, China
March 28 2005

Turkish documents refute allegations of Armenian genocide: official

ANKARA, March 28 (Xinhuanet) — Turkish Prime Ministry State
Archives Director General Yusuf Sarinay said on Monday that tens of
thousands of documents in state archives refuted the Armenian
genocide allegations.

More than 1 million documents were related with Armenians
directly and indirectly in Turkish archives from 1870s to
1922,Sarinay said.

“When we read those documents, we see that the Ottoman Empire
decided to relocate Armenians to suppress a de facto uprising and put
an end to Armenian’s collaboration with Russian army, not to prevent
a likely rebellion,” Sarinay said.

He blamed that Armenians have been making propaganda against
Turkey for a long time.

April 24 was declared as “day of genocide” by Armenians. Turkey
has always denied that the Armenians were subject to genocide between
1915 and 1923. While Armenians claim up to 1.5million Armenians died
in the period as a result of systematic genocide.