ACCORDING TO "ENI SHAFAQ", TURKEY PRESENTS ONE-SIDED DOCUMENTS ABOUT GENOCIDE

Noyan Tapan News Agency, Armenia
Nov 15 2006

ISTANBUL, NOVEMBER 15, NOYAN TAPAN – ARMENIANS TODAY. In connection
with the Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan’s proposal to
the Turkish president to create a commission to examine issues of the
Armenian Genocide, the newspaper "Eni Shafaq" proposes the Turkish
authorities to look into their own archives.

Particularly, the article notes that there are some documents showing
that a deportation rather than genocide took place in 1915. "On
the other hand, there were several hundred thousands of missing
ordnary people (even a million) who had not participated in a war
or uprising. Nobody speaks about documents related to them. We
cannot convince anybody by presenting such one-sided documents,"
the newspaper writes.

"If we cannot open our archives containing such documents, if we only
open archives to our advantage, we can never be convincing in this
problem. On the contrary, we continue to act in this way," is said
in the article.

According to the article, recently the Turkish General Staff presented
original documents and photos about the 1915 deportation in the
military museum of Harbie. However, the one-sided approach again
prevailed here, that is, the archives are used in an advantageous way.

"One asks a question: do these archives contain a document about
the deportation and massacres aganist Armenians? If there are
such documents, why they are not presented and handed to the prime
minister?" the article’s author writes, adding that there is a need
to think about using more reasonable and serious methods.