Turkish Press
March 30 2005
Hurriyet
GUL: `THE ARMENIAN GENOCIDE WAS INVENTED BY THE DIASPORA'
Foreign Minister Abdullah Gul yesterday met with his visiting Swiss
counterpart Micheline Calmy-Rey. After their talks, Gul told a joint
press conference, Gul said that the two countries enjoyed good
relations and that that visit would help to boost these ties.
Stressing that they had comprehensively discussed the Armenian
genocide allegations, Gul called the allegations groundless
accusations put forward by the Armenian diaspora to justify its
ongoing existence. `We are confident in ourselves, and so have opened
all archives to everybody for examination,' added Gul. In the
evening, he hosted a dinner for Calmy-Rey and his accompanying
delegation. /Hurriyet/
March 30 2005
Hurriyet
GUL: `THE ARMENIAN GENOCIDE WAS INVENTED BY THE DIASPORA'
Foreign Minister Abdullah Gul yesterday met with his visiting Swiss
counterpart Micheline Calmy-Rey. After their talks, Gul told a joint
press conference, Gul said that the two countries enjoyed good
relations and that that visit would help to boost these ties.
Stressing that they had comprehensively discussed the Armenian
genocide allegations, Gul called the allegations groundless
accusations put forward by the Armenian diaspora to justify its
ongoing existence. `We are confident in ourselves, and so have opened
all archives to everybody for examination,' added Gul. In the
evening, he hosted a dinner for Calmy-Rey and his accompanying
delegation. /Hurriyet/