TURKEY URGES ARMENIA TO ORGANIZE A CONFERENCE ON ARMENIAN TERRORISM IN YEREVAN
Journal of Turkish Weekly
Sept 26 2005
ISTANBUL – After the controversial Armenian Conference in Istanbul,
Turkish media and public demand a conference in Yerevan on Armenian
terrorism and on the civilian Turks massacred by the Armenians.
Hurriyet daily’s headline today was “Discuss Yerevan All These”
implying Armenia should be open to discuss Armenian terrorism and
Armenian attacks against the Turkish civilians during the First World
War. Armenian terrorists killed more than 40 Turkish diplomats during
the 1970 and 1980s.
Prof. Cengiz Kutay said “We support strongly the Armenian Conference in
Istanbul though we do not share the speeches made in the Conference. It
is strange that Armenians keep the events so-called happened90 years
ago. However all the Turkish diplomats who were killed by the Armenian
terrorists and the Armenian attacks against the Turkish civilians
are forgotten.”
More than 520.000 Turkish villagers were massacred by the Armenian
armed groups in order to establish an independent Armenian in the
eastern provinces of the Ottoman Empire.