ARMENIANS TO WORK IN TURKISH CHIEF SECRETARIAT ON EU AFFAIRS

Journal of Turkish Weekly
Wednesday, 19 August 2009

Armenian media leaks that the Turkish Chief Secretariat on EU affairs
will employ researchers and translators of Armenian background are
true, a secretariat employee told Trend News.

"But it should be taken into account that they are Turkish citizens who
speak the Armenian language and are representatives of the Armenian
community in Turkey," he said. "I think that any citizen in Turkey
can get a job like this, regardless of religious and national status."

Turkish laws do not forbid this, he added The Armenian media reported
that the Armenian Patriarchate of Constantinople will take an interest
in this issue. An advertisement was posted on the Patriarchy’s official
website: "Young representatives of the Armenian community who wish
to work in the General Secretariat of Turkey for EU affairs required."

An official from the Secretariat, Burak Erdemir, said: "We have no
representatives from ethnic minorities in the Secretariat, and we
need representatives from all segments of the social structure."