IN ANKARA, WORKERS’ PARTY PROTESTS ARMENIAN GENOCIDE ALLEGATIONS AT US EMBASSY

Hurriyet, Turkey
March 7 2007

Yesterday in Ankara, a group from the Turkish Workers’ Party gathered
to demonstrate in protest of events linked to the Armenian allegation
of genocide in Turkey.

Shouting slogans of "We have not committed genocide, we only defended
our nation," and "The genocide lie is an American game," the group also
registered protest over the trial which has just begun in Switzerland,
in which Workers’ Party leader Dogu Perincek is being charged on counts
of publicly denying the Armenian genocide claims at a demonstration
in Lausanne in 2005.

Workers’ Party Deputy Secretary Kamil Dede spoke in his party’s name
yesterday, recalling that Perincek was on trial for saying in 2005
that the Armenian claims of genocide were "an imperialist lie." Dede
also talked about the Armenian genocide bill being debated in the US
Congress, noting "The US Committee on Foreign Relations is going to
debate a resolution condemning the murder of Hrant Dink today. Then
the so-called Armenian genocide resolution bill will go before the
US House of Representatives for voting. What this shows clearly is
whose purposes the Hrant Dink murder really served. The force behind
this murder was the US."