PanArmenian News Network
July 22 2005

TURKEY TRIES TO HAMPER OPENING ARMENIAN GENOCIDE MUSEUM IN OSLO

22.07.2005 05:54

/PanARMENIAN.Net/ One of Oslo-based private companies has set about
the founding of a Genocide Museum, where a section will be devoted to
the Armenian Genocide. According to the Yerkir newspaper referring to
the Haratch Paris newspaper, Ankara is already taking steps not to
allow the exposition on the tragic events of 1915. Thereupon
Norwegian Deputy FM Kim Traavik noted the museum is founded by a
private company, thus the Government does not have a right to
interfere. History professor of Berken University O. P. Furie is one
of the co-sponsors of the museum. The opening is scheduled August 30,
when Turkey marks the Victory Day – the liberation of the country
from «enemies.» Turkish FM Abdullah Gul stated at a meeting with Kim
Traavik that the availability of sections devoted to the Holocaust
and the Armenian Genocide in the same museum is «insulting the
Turkish people.» «We expect this to be banned,» Gul added.