ERDOGAN: SOME FORCES "TRYING TO BLACKEN GLORIOUS HISTORY OF TURKISH PEOPLE"

PanARMENIAN.Net
11.09.2006 18:10 GMT+04:00

/PanARMENIAN.Net/ Some forces are "trying to blacken the glorious
history of the Turkish people and the statements on the Armenian
Genocide are a typical example of this", Turkish Prime Minister Recep
Tayyip Erdogan stated. "It’s hard to find a nation with such huge
historical heritage. As Turkey’s Prime Minister I personally proposed
Armenia to form a joint commission for investigation of the last years
of the Ottoman Empire," Erdogan said, stressing that the government
headed by him does the utmost to support the department of Turkish
history and language. "These two departments lay in the basis of the
formation of the Turkish Republic," the Prime Minister concluded.