Israeli Scholar Called Events in 1915 Armenian Genocide

PanARMENIAN.Net
18.03.2006 01:59 GMT+04:00

/PanARMENIAN.Net/ “The deportation in 1915, in my opinion, was
a genuine genocide, and it was widely covered by the world press,
despite Ottoman state’s efforts,” Israeli historian Yair Auron stated
at of New Approaches in the Turkish-Armenian Relations conference at
Istanbul University. Auron emphasized that within that period many
newspapers in Palestine covered the issue of the Armenian Genocide. “We
can clearly see it by studying publications of that time. I studied
well memoirs, sources and I conceive that what happened to Armenians
was a genocide,” the Israeli scholar stated. Auron’s statements
outraged some participants of New Approaches in Turkish-Armenian
Relations conference. However, organizers of the event said tolerance
should be displayed to any opposite opinion, the Marmara Istanbul
newspaper reports.