ERDOGAN: ARMENIAN DIASPORA ENGAGED IN "CHEAP POLITICAL LOBBYING"

PanARMENIAN.Net
14.11.2008 14:18 GMT+04:00

/PanARMENIAN.Net/ Turkey’s Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan once
again offered Armenia to open its archives for a study of the events
of 1915.

Back in 2005, the Turkish PM made a similar proposal to then-President
of Armenia Robert Kocharian.

"Our offer is still on the table. Let’s leave it to historians,"
Erdogan told a conference in New York Columbia University. "We have
opened our archives and Armenians should open their archives too. We
have studied over 1 million documents so far."

Asked about Turkish government’s reaction regarding
U.S. president-elect Barack Obama and his team’s stand on the Armenian
Genocide, Erdogan said the campaign carried out by the Armenian
Diaspora in the United States is not fair.

"I hope the new U.S. administration would take into account Turkey’s
efforts. It is not fair to make a judgment upon such cheap political
lobbying," he said, Today’s Zaman reports.