ANKARA SENDS LETTER OF PROTEST TO ARGENTINA FOREIGN MINISTRY ON OCCASION OF CERTIFYING LAW ON ARMENIAN GENOCIDE

Noyan Tapan
Armenians Today
Jan 16 2007

ANKARA, JANUARY 16, NOYAN TAPAN – ARMENIANS TODAY. The Ministry of
Foreign Affairs of Turkey seriously condemned the law signed on January
11 by President of Argentina Nestor Kirchner, according to which April
24, the day of memory of the Armenian Genocide victims, is proclaimed
in that Latin American country as "the day of tolerance and respect
among peoples." "This is out of boders of ethics and seriousness. The
law does not correspond to historic realities," is said in the letter
of protest addressed to the Foreign Ministry of Argentina.

According to the Turkish Daily News, the Turkish Foreign Ministry
considers that the law was adopted "coming out of innerpolitical
goals." "The Government of Argentina bears the legal and political
responsibility for this unjust step," is said in the statement.

The statement authors also stated that Turkish Prime Minister Recep
Tayyip Erdogan sent a letter on December 7, 2006 to the President of
Argentina in which he expressed his country’s anxiety on the occasion
of the draft: "But in opposite to it, the draft was certified. The
draft which envisages respect and broad-mindedness among the peoples,
in opposite, will sow new enmity."

According to official Ankara, the countries, blinked at the crimes
committed by themselves in the past "have no right to interfere in
the past of countries in another continent."