ARMINFO News Agency
September 20, 2005

CLAIMS LODGES AGAINST ARMENIAN SCIENTISTS IN TURKEY

YEREVAN, SEPTEMBER 20. ARMINFO. A claim was lodged in the Turkish
Prosecutor’s Office Uskudar against Armenian scientists.

The Turkishpress writes: “A denouncement has been filed against
several Armenian scholars who organized a conference on ‘the
so-called Armenian genocide’ and used Ataturk’s picture on a poster
at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA). The denouncement
was filed at the Uskudar Republican Prosecutor’s Office and had the
signatures of Dr. Ibrahim Oztek, Dr. Zihni Papakci and owner of
Iktidar Magazine Metin Hacimustafaoglu. A conference ‘on the
so-called Armenian genocide’ was organized at UCLA which was attended
by Armenian scholars Vahram Shemmassian, Ardashes Kassakhian and
Levon Marashlian last April. The conference posters had Ataturk’s
picture in front of puppies. Dr. Oztek stressed that Turks and the
founder of Turkey Ataturk were insulted by the posters and conference
organized at UCLA. ”We will sue those responsible for the insult
against the Turks,” noted Oztek.”