TURKISH MPS ANNOUNCE ‘SHAME LIST’
By Cihan News Agency

Zaman, Turkey
Oct 24 2006

On Thursday, the Turkish parliament took a new step in condemnation
of the French parliament’s acceptance of a bill criminalizing any
denial of an Armenian genocide.

It compiled a "shame list" of massacres committed by European
countries, including France, Germany and the Netherlands.

The necessary study for the list was conducted by the parliament’s
justice sub-committee as part of its debates over a bill that would
recognize the Algerian genocide committed by France.

The commission is researching the past massacres and tyrannies of
countries that accept the Armenian genocide.

The members of the commission listened to Turkish History Society
President Professor Yusuf Halacoglu and decided that announcing the
European list to the world would be more efficient than recognition
of an Algerian genocide.

In this context, the commission requested that the Turkish History
Society and foreign affairs department carry out extensive studies
into the history of countries recognizing an Armenian genocide.

The "shame list" is expected to be announced following the Ramadan
holiday.

Deputy Mustafa Nuri Akbulut announced that the parliament would
publish the list rather than recognize an Algerian genocide.

Akbulut also asserted that this study would enable the international
community to better see the objective attitude of the Turkish
parliament and added human rights, freedom of speech and the process
that this method was subject to would be discussed extensively in
the document.

Justice and Development Party (AKP) deputy Akbulut also said the
document would include a text that will explain the circumstances
under which Turkey decided to deport Armenians in 1915.

Akbulut noted that while Ottoman soldiers were deployed in the
Dardanelles and the Caucasus during World War I, Armenians committed
massacres in Anatolia and betrayed Ottomans.

France, Germany, the Netherlands, Italy, Sweden, Poland, Belgium,
Slovakia, Greece, Latvia and Greek Cyprus have all made decisions
so far about an Armenian Genocide in different years, and some have
issued declarations and reports on the issue.

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From: Emil Lazarian | Ararat NewsPress