DOES NOT HALACOGLU KNOW WHERE PATRIARCHY’S ARCHIVES ARE?
By H. Chaqrian

AZG Armenian Daily
22/03/2007

Mutafian Patriarch Responds to Halacoglu’s Offences

The more April 24 draws near, the more irritable become the advocates
of Turkey’s policy of Armenian Genocide denial. The progress of
the Genocide’s world recognition process is driving them mad and,
in order to save their positions, in for lies and slander.

^_The most outstanding persons of the advocates of Armenian Genocide
denial is prof. Yusuf Halacoglu, President of the Turkish Historical
Society. As his first step was to lie so as to invite Armenian
scientists to cooperation, the second was to slander them, as lies
are always unveiled – sooner or later.

Ara Safarian, director of "Komitas" institute was the Armenian
scientist who responded to Halacoglu’s invitation. When he refused to
cooperate with the Turkish historians because the Ottoman articles were
"cleaned" of documents witnessing the Armenian Genocide, Halacoglu
started accusing him of "making a show". "If the necessary documents
are missing from eth Ottoman archive, they can be found in the archive
of the patriarchy. We can work there together. Why are they afraid
of opening the Patriarchy’s archives?" added Halacoglu.

To this the Patriarch responded on March 19: "I was surprised by
Halacoglu’s words about the archives of the Patriarchy. I am sure he
knows well the decision of Turkish Government of August 10, 1916,
to unite the patriarchies of Constantinople, Akhtamar and Sis with
the center in Jerusalem. Does not he know where our patriarchy’s
archives are?"

Thus came out that the Patriarch of Constantinople is by no means
involved in lies or concealing historical fatcs, and that accusations
of Halacoglu are nothing by slander.