AZERBAIJAN-TURKEY HISTORICAL RESEARCH FUND FORMS ITS STRUCTURE AND ADMINISTRATION

Trend News Agency
June 17 2008
Azerbaijan

Turkey, Ankara, 17 June / Trend News corr T. Aliyev/ Ankara hosted the
first meeting of Azerbaijan-Turkey Historical Research Fund, which is
intended to research the ‘Armenian’ issue, to prove groundlessness
of Armenians’ claims to recognize the ‘Armenian genocide’ and to
popularize the truth about the issue amongst the international
community. The meeting approved of the administration and structure
of the Fund.

By the decision of the Fund’s trusteeship council, new members were
admitted to the Fund to increase their number from 13 to 52. Turkey’s
9th President Suleyman Demirel was elected the Chairman of the
Trusteeship Council. World-known scientist Ihsan Dogramac, Deputy
Chairman of PACE Samad Seyidov and Chairman of the Azerbaijan-Turkey
Businessmen Association (ATIB) Ahmet Erentok were elected his deputies.

It was decided at the meeting to confer the title of Honorary Chairman
of the Fund to the Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev and Turkish
President Abdullah Gul.

Speakers of Azerbaijani and Turkish Parliaments Ogtay Asadov and Koksal
Toptan were elected as co-chairmen of the Fund’s Supreme Consultative
Council. Yusuf Halacoglu was elected Chairman of the Supreme Scientific
Council of the Fund; Director of the History Institute of the National
Academy of Sciences of Azerbaijan Yagub Mammadov, chancellor of the
Baku State University Abel Maharramov and head of the Azerbaijan State
Archive Atakhan Pashayev were elected his deputies. Turkey’s former
Culture Minister Namik Kamal Zaybek was elected chairman of the board.

The Ankara meeting also adopted the Charter of the Azerbaijan-Turkey
Historical Research Fund, determined composition of the financial
commission and approved the budget for 2008.