EVEN WORLD GUIDEBOOKS SAY OF GENOCIDE NEGATION
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March 19 2010
Armenia
Reading a guidebook about Turkey you will hardly find any mention of
Genocide, reads the article by Seth J. Frantzman — PhD researcher at
Hebrew University, published in the Jerusalem Post daily. The author
was utterly surprised discovering reference to Armenian Genocide and
allusion of Armenians living once in Eastern Turkey in Lonely Planet’s
Turkish guide nonexistent (one of the world leading guidebooks).
He emphasizes that Genocide denial is presented in the book as follows:
"It was during this time of confusion and turmoil [World War I]
that the Armenian scenario unfolded." According to the author,
"it is not the job of a travel guide to be an arbiter of history."
Frantzman notes that the authors try to have conflict-free relations
with authorities of the countries they have included. "With a magic
wand the entire history of Armenians in Anatolia, which dates from
the sixth century BCE, disappears," the author says, adding that
chapter about Turkey’s history is rewritten, having no mention about
minorities, including Armenians, Assyrians and Greeks who disappeared
between 1915 and 1922.