STOCKHOLM, APRIL 18, ARMENPRESS:
TURKEY´S PROMISES TO OPEN ARCHIVES ARE EMPTY PROMISES, SWEDISH PROFESSOR SAYS
Annelle Enochson , a Christian Democratic Party member elected to
the Swedish Riksdag, has asked foreign minister Leila Freivalds
what she could do in order to make the Turkish government respect
its own promises to open the Ottoman archives for researchers and
individuals, which it said would “prove the falseness of Armenian
genocide allegations,” the Armenian National Committee- Scandinavia
(ANCS), reported.
The ANCS quoted Prof. David Gaunt, from a Swedish university,
as saying that their university shown interest in the archives,
“but after several unfruitful attempts to get out documents from the
Ottoman archives, I turned to the Swedish Committee for Human Rights,
for help.”
This is a support committee working in the frame of the Swedish
Parliament, and they in their turn presented a list of the documents
Gaunt was interested in to the Turkish foreign minister in November
2004. Until March 2005, the Turkish government has given no signs,
not the slightest signal, about the requested documents.
“I have no other choice but see upon the promise of opening the
archives by the Turkish authorities as nothing but empty words, so
I have decided to take up the issue with our foreign minister and
submitted a written application,” Annelle Enochson said.
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