TURKISH PUPIL’S PARENTS PROTEST: COMPOSITION ON ARMENIAN GENOCIDE ASSIGNED AT AMERICAN SCHOOL
Noyan Tapan
Jan 11, 2010
NEW YORK, JANUARY 11, NOYAN TAPAN – ARMENIANS TODAY. A Turkish pupil
was assigned to write a composition on Armenian Genocide at a school
of New York’s Manhattan district, in response to which his parents
sent a letter of protest to school’s administration, to Turkey’s
Consulate in New York.
According to Marmara, a video material on massacres of Armenians was
shown to the pupils before the composition.
Letter’s authors assert that the information given to the pupils was
received from biassed sources. The Consulate, in its turn, sent an
application of complaint to school’s administration and called all
Turks residing in America for immediately informing the Consulate
about such cases.
In this connection Turkish press reminded that World History has been
taught at New York’s colleges since 1966 and within the framework
of it the events of World War I and 1915 are covered from Armenian
point of view: Armenian books and documents were used as sources.