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    Turkish Daily News
    March 12 2005

    Germany says archives open to all
    Saturday, March 12, 2005



    Ankara - Turkish Daily News


    The German Embassy in Ankara announced that all documents in German
    archives relating to the Armenians were open to everybody.

    "All of the German official archives belonging to the pre-1945 era
    are open for any research," the embassy said. "Those documents -- in
    the political archives section of the German Foreign Ministry -- have
    a significant importance since Germany had intensive diplomatic and
    military relations with its ally the Ottoman Empire at that time."

    Turkey is keen to conduct a joint study for full access to state
    archives both in Turkey and Armenia to settle the argument once and
    for all; however, Armenian Foreign Minister Vardan Oskanyan, in an
    interview with Reuters, reiterated that Armenia rejected a Turkish
    proposal for an impartial panel of historians to test Armenian claims
    that their people suffered a genocide at the hands of Ottoman Turkey.


    Turkish daily Milliyet reported that a symposium to be funded by
    the Foreign Ministry was scheduled to be held on May 28 in Turkey to
    discuss so-called genocide allegations attended by a number of
    Turkish and foreign experts.

    From: Emil Lazarian | Ararat NewsPress
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