United Press International, US
Sept 24 2005

Turkey confronts Armenian genocide

ISTANBUL, Turkey (UPI) — University scholars in Turkey planned a
weekend ground-breaking conference on the mass killings of Armenians
under Ottoman rule.

Armenians worldwide have been campaigning for decades for the deaths,
thought to have been more than a million, to be recognized
universally as genocide, the BBC said.

Debate of the killings has been taboo in Turkey but the nation is
under outside pressure for greater freedom of speech.

An Istanbul court banned the conference from Bosphorus University
after complaints by nationalists that the historians behind it were
‘traitors.’ But the session was moved to Bilgi University.