INFORMATIVE MEETING ON “NEW APPROACHES TO TURKISH-ARMENIAN RELATIONS” SYMPOSIUM

Anatolian Times, Turkey
March 14 2006

ISTANBUL – Istanbul University Rector Prof. Mesut Parlak held
an informative meeting about the symposium on “New Approaches to
Turkish-Armenian Relations” which will be held at the university from
March 15th to 17th.

Stating that this symposium would be the most comprehensive one with
70 participants from Turkey and some other countries, Parlak underlined
that it would reveal the truths regarding Turkish-Armenian relations.

Parlak said that 1915 incidents had several dimensions –military,
social and psychological–, stating that the matter would be discussed
from a scientific point of view.

“I believe that the symposium will help a new period be started in
Turkish-Armenian relations,” he underlined.

Parlak noted that the university invited Armenian historians to the
symposium, but they said that they would not attend.