SARAFIAN AND HALACOGLU DISPROVE RADIKAL’S INSISTENCE ON THEIR AVOIDING
HOLDING JOINT RESEARCH

ISTANBUL, MARCH 16, NOYAN TAPAN – ARMENIANS TODAY. Historians Ara
Sarafian and Yusuf Halacoglu stated that the Radikal journalist’s
interpretation about their refusal to hold a research in Kharberd
concerning the Armenian Genocide and having a rest are wrong. Marmara
states about it.

Halacoglu showed his correspondence with Sarafian and insisted that he
was not the one to avoid. And Sarafian was insulted from the Radikal
journalist’s words, according to which he proposed difficult
conditions before holding researches in Kharberd. Sarafian said that
his goal is to create clear working conditions.

After all these the Turkish newspaper journalist said that he is
obliged to emphasize that in his opinion, Ara Sarafian avoided the
work. He also mentioned that here the issue is not the one who
avoided. The important thing is that such a valuable occasion was lost
as Turkey for the first time has a possibility to do public work with
a historian like Ara Sarafian, and though Sarafian was sure in the
Genocide, Turkey was to show respect towards him. This valuable
possibility was lost, the journalist said.