AZERI AND TURKISH SCHOLARS UNITE IN ANTI-ARMENIAN STRUGGLE

PanARMENIAN.Net
15.05.2006 17:07 GMT+04:00

/PanARMENIAN.Net/ To make the international community “aware” of the
Armenian Genocide in the Ottoman Empire Azeri and Turkish scholars
will form a joint working group. The decision was made at Armenian
Issue in the History of Azerbaijan and Turkey international conference
May 15. Head of the Department of Turkish History, professor Yusuf
Khalachoglu, and rector of the Baku State University, Abel Maharramov,
signed Baku declaration. The second item of the document envisages
the establishment of the joint working group. Along with Maharramov
and Khalachoglu, the head of the Institute of Azerbaijani History,
Yagub Mahmudov, and the chairman of ATIB, Ahmed Erentok are to be
other 2 co-chairs of the group.

The working group will meet every 3 moths in Baku and Ankara by
turn. The first gathering will be held in Ankara. Moreover, in
compliance with the Baku Declaration, with respect to inform the
international community about “the Khojaly tragedy, as well as those
that happened from the beginning of the 20th century to 1992,” it
was resolved to establish a Coordinating Center to be governed by ATIB.