BABACAN MAKES NEWSWEEK’S ‘INTERNATIONAL PERSPECTIVES’
By Anka, Ankara

Zaman, Turkey
Oct 22 2006

Newsweek, one of the top weekly news magazines in the world, reprinted
Turkey’s chief EU negotiator and Economic Minister Ali Babacan’s
statement, "Leave history to historians."

Newsweek selected Babacan’s statement as one of the three most
important perspectives of the week.

The magazine’s caption describing his comment said: "Ali Babacan,
Turkey’s chief negotiator in EU membership talks, marking his
disappointment in a French bill that would require Turkey to admit that
the murder of 1.5 million Armenians during World War I was genocide."