COLLECTION OF SIGNATURES

Azat Artsakh Daily
05 Dec 08
Republic of Nagorno Karabakh [NKR]

>From the beginning of the coming year, a group of Turkish journalists
and specialists working in the sphere of education is going launch a
campaign of collecting signatures "for apologizing for the deportation
of the Armenians organized in the Ottoman Empire in 1915".

The campaign is to be led by Turkish Academicians Ahmed Insel,
Baskyn Oran, Jengiz Aktar and journalist Ali Byramoghlu. The document
on launching the campaign runs as follows, "The indifference to and
denial of the great tragedy suffered by the Armenians in the Ottoman
Empire in 1915 is mercilessness. We deny injustice and share the
feelings and sorrow of our Armenian brothers and apologize to them."

As reported by the Turkish television, the Turkish intellectuals’
Internet campaign of collecting signatures will last a year.