Today’s Zaman, Turkey
Jan 28 2008
Turks protest `genocide classes’
Turks living in Canada have launched a petition campaign against a
recent decision in Toronto to include in school curricula the study
of an alleged genocide of Armenians in the final years of the Ottoman
Empire.
Some 10,000 petitions have been collected so far in the online
petition campaign, the Anatolia news agency reported.
The Unity Group, consisting of several Turkish NGOs, said in a recent
statement that the course would put at risk the lives of Turkish and
Muslim students in high schools. The group called on the authorities
to reverse the decision to include the course, created by one of the
largest school boards in Canada, the Toronto District School Board,
in the 2008-2009 curriculum. The course focuses on the alleged
Armenian genocide along with the Holocaust and the massacres in
Rwanda. Turkish Ambassador to Canada Aydemir Erman has also conveyed
Turkey’s unease about the decision to Canadian authorities, including
Prime Minister Stephen Harper.
From: Emil Lazarian | Ararat NewsPress
