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    PanArmenian News Network
    July 22 2005

    TURKEY TRIES TO HAMPER OPENING ARMENIAN GENOCIDE MUSEUM IN OSLO


    22.07.2005 05:54

    /PanARMENIAN.Net/ One of Oslo-based private companies has set about
    the founding of a Genocide Museum, where a section will be devoted to
    the Armenian Genocide. According to the Yerkir newspaper referring to
    the Haratch Paris newspaper, Ankara is already taking steps not to
    allow the exposition on the tragic events of 1915. Thereupon
    Norwegian Deputy FM Kim Traavik noted the museum is founded by a
    private company, thus the Government does not have a right to
    interfere. History professor of Berken University O. P. Furie is one
    of the co-sponsors of the museum. The opening is scheduled August 30,
    when Turkey marks the Victory Day - the liberation of the country
    from «enemies.» Turkish FM Abdullah Gul stated at a meeting with Kim
    Traavik that the availability of sections devoted to the Holocaust
    and the Armenian Genocide in the same museum is «insulting the
    Turkish people.» «We expect this to be banned,» Gul added.
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