ARMENIAN HISTORIANS NOT TO ATTEND FORUM ON ALLEGED GENOCIDE
NTV MSNBC, Turkey
March 14 2006
More than 50 experts from Turkey and abroad are expected to attend
the conference organised by the Istanbul University.
NTV-MSNBC Guncelleme: 13:31 TSÝ 14 Mart 2006 SalýISTANBUL – The Dean
of Istanbul University, Profesor Mesut Parlak, on Monday held a press
conference to discuss the forthcoming conference on the so-called
Armenian genocide.
Parlak said that Armenian historians who had been invited to
participate in the conference have rejected the invitations, with
just one responding in a written form.
“In the foreign press they made statement that had the aim of hurting
our university,” Parlak said.
Parlak said that the conference, to be held between March 15 and
17, would be the first such gatherings with a wide participation in
Turkey. He said the conference would open up a new page on the issue.
The meeting would bring to light many issues that were not made
public before.
Those who refused to take part in the conference from Turkey included
prominent writer Orhan Pamuk, Baskýn Oran, Selim Deringil and the
chief correspondent of the Armenian paper Agos Hrant Dink.
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