TURKS SEND LETTER TO OBAMA, URGING HIM NOT TO RECOGNIZE FACT OF ARMENIAN GENOCIDE

Noyan Tapan

Feb 9, 2009

ANKARA, FEBRUARY 9, NOYAN TAPAN. The Turks sent a letter to the
newly-elected US president Barack Obama, urging him to reconsider
his promise to recognize the Armenian Genocide.

The author of this initiative is the chairman of Turkish Forum
website Kayaalp Buyukataman who has handed the letter to the advisor
on political issues of the US embassy in Ankara.

During a three-hour meeting at the US embassy, the chairman of Turkish
Forum declared that they are optimistic about the initiative, adding:
"Only the facts that US archives also have will stop Obama".

By the way, in the words of K. Buyukataman, the copies of some archive
documents, which are related to the Armenian Question and have been
unknown to the public so far, were enlosed with the letter.

The letter quotes B. Obama’s promise to the Armenians and
indicates that Obama is now not a presidential candidate but the
president. According to the authors of the letter, they anticipate
dialog and peace from President Obama, as well as his assistance with
more voluminous research and work on the historical events.