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MEDIA ALERT

May 18, 2005

CONTACT: Christine Kojoian
Email: ckojoian@aaainc.org

RE: The Washington Times Publishes Assembly “Letter to the Editor”

The Armenian Assembly of America would like to call your attention to
the attached “Letter to the Editor,” published today in The Washington
Times by the Assembly Board of Directors Chairman Anthony Barsamian.
The letter was written in response to Turkish Ambassador O. Faruk
Logoglu’s recently published commentary entitled, “To Reconcile Turks
and Armenians.”

The letter can also be accessed at the following link:

TURKEY SHOULD FACE FACTS

Dear Editor:

It is disingenuous at best for Turkey’s ambassador to the United
States to tout his government’s offer to establish a commission to
study the Armenian genocide (“To reconcile Turks and Armenians,”
Commentary, May 3). As the ambassador is well aware, more than 120
Holocaust and genocide scholars have declared the Armenian genocide
an incontestable fact. Furthermore, the International Center for
Transitional Justice recently released a legal study implicitly
supported by the Turkish government that declared “The Events, viewed
collectively, can thus be said to include all of the elements of the
crime of genocide as defined in the Convention, and legal scholars as
well as historians, politicians, journalists and other people would
be justified in continuing to so describe them.”

The scholars and lawyers have spoken. It is long past time for
Turkey to face the judgment of history.

ANTHONY BARSAMIAN
Chairman, Board of Directors
Armenian Assembly of America
Washington

The Armenian Assembly of America is the largest Washington-based
nationwide organization promoting public understanding and awareness of
Armenian issues. It is a 501(c)(3) tax-exempt membership organization.

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