NTV MSNBC, Turkey
April 11 2005
PM calls for Armenians to apologise to Turkey
Prime Minister Erdogan said that his party and the opposition will be
united in challenging the Armenian claims.
April 11 – It is up to the Armenians to apologise to Turkey over
allegations of genocide during the First World War, Turkish Recep
Tayyip Erdogan said Monday.
Speaking in Norway while on an official visit Erdogan said
that Turkey was prepared to openly discuss the claims made by
Armenians that the Ottoman Empire had committed genocide against its
Armenian citizens
`We are opening up all of the state archives. Let everyone
come and study it, we are ready to settle accounts with our history,’
he said.
Erdogan said that they would send a letter to the 11 countries
that had chosen to use the Blue Book, a study of the allegations and
that is used as a basis for the Armenians claims, seeking for an
apology to Turkey. He said that all the 550 deputies in the Turkish
parliament would sign this letter.
From: Baghdasarian