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    Turkish press
    April 13 2005

    Turkish Parliament Sends Letter To Britain On Armenian Claims


    ANKARA - Turkish parliament sent on Wednesday a letter to British
    House of Commons and House of Lords regarding the so-called Armenian
    genocide allegations.

    The letter was signed by Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan
    and Deniz Baykal, the leader of the main opposition Republican
    People's Party (CHP).

    Demanding that the ''Blue Book'' should be declared invalid and
    baseless as a historical document, the letter said, ''the Blue Book
    was used as an ethic ground for dreadful terrorist crimes committed
    by Armenian genocide justice commandos and ASALA.''

    The letter also demanded that the fact should be declared that the
    book entitled ''Treatment towards Armenians in the Ottoman Empire
    between 1915-1916'' was actually a tool for propaganda prepared by
    the British War Propaganda Office during the World War I.

    Noting that the ''Blue Book'' did not include words of other sources,
    the letter said, ''the Blue Book did not touch on killing of tens of
    thousands of Muslims by Armenian rebellions in eastern Anatolia.''

    The letter pointed out that the ''Blue Book'' did not say that
    hundreds of thousands of Armenians who were outside the war area
    continued to live in peace and stability.

    The ''Blue Book'' did neither mention killing of Ottoman officials,
    cutting of communication lines, mass killing of Turks in (eastern
    city of) Van, and forced migration of more than one million Muslims
    from their homes by the Russians and Armenians, the letter said.

    The letter stated that a decision made by Malta Court in 1921
    indirectly declared that the documents and claims in the ''Blue
    Book'' were baseless.
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