TURK DEPUTY OF LABOUR PARTY OF HOLLAND DOES NOT ORIENT IN ISSUE OF GENOCIDE RECOGNITION

Noyan Tapan News Agency, Armenia
Oct 10 2006

AMSTERDAM, OCTOBER 10, NOYAN TAPAN – ARMENIANS TODAY. The Labour Party
of Holland did not get free of the Armenian Genocide issue yet, the
Armenian Organizations’ Federation of Netherlands states. Member of
that party, famous deputy Turk Nebahat Albayrak’s position relating
to the Armenian Genocide issue was again called into question by
different mass media during the recent days.

That party broke off its ties with deputy Erdinc Sacan the last week.

He will not participate in the parliamentary elections to take place on
November 22 as he refuses to recognize the Armenian Genocide conducted
by Turkey in 1915-1917. Albayrak, who is the second in the party list
after Wouter Bos, still refused to give clear interpretations on her
orientation in the genocide issue.

According to the "Elsevier" newspaper, Albayrak did not give
explanations starting from the next week when she "brought the debate
to a problem," saying in the interview to the "Trow" newspaper that
it is impossoble to have a clear position as the historic sources
"were made dirty."

"Elsevier" writes that Albayrak puts forward the Turkish government’s
position as the Ambassador of Turkey wrote in the letter addressed
to Handelsbad. The diplomate said that "historians are of different
opinion in the issue of qualifying these events."

While Turk members of the Labour Party have evasive position concerning
the issue, its causes mess in another, the Christian Democratic Party
(CDP). 30 Turk members of the CDP protested at the last week congress
of the party on the occasion of taking out of the lists of candidates
names of 2 candiadtes refused to recognize the Genocide.

In the opinion of the Turkish Ambassador to Holland, the names of
Ayhan Tonca and Osman Elmaci were taken out of the list by a mistake.

On Monday the Turkish Parliament confered title of "honourary
parliamentarian" to Sacan, Tonca and Elmaci.

To recap, according to Marmara, Nebahat Albayrak recognized the fact of
the Armenian Genocide, however, adding that she stands for discussing
in what way that genocide was conducted. Opposing those explanations
of Albayrak, her co-partisans insisted that she "plays on two strings"
and expresses evasive opinion.