Tweet
startribune.com
[Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA]
World/nation briefs
Published May 27, 2005
Turkey: Genocide conference postponed
Three Turkish universities have postponed a conference to discuss last
century's mass killings of Armenians by Ottoman Turks after the justice
minister accused organizers of treachery. The three-day conference was
scheduled to start Wednesday at Istanbul's Bosporus University. A
University of Minnesota visiting associate professor of history, Taner
Akçam, was one of the conference organizers. Armenians say Ottoman Turks
killed 1.5 million of their people in a campaign of genocide between
1915 and 1923. Turkey says the death count is inflated and insists
Armenians were killed or displaced in civil unrest.
© Copyright 2005 Star Tribune. All rights reserved.
http://www.startribune.com/stories/484/5426064.html
From: Emil Lazarian | Ararat NewsPress
[Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA]
World/nation briefs
Published May 27, 2005
Turkey: Genocide conference postponed
Three Turkish universities have postponed a conference to discuss last
century's mass killings of Armenians by Ottoman Turks after the justice
minister accused organizers of treachery. The three-day conference was
scheduled to start Wednesday at Istanbul's Bosporus University. A
University of Minnesota visiting associate professor of history, Taner
Akçam, was one of the conference organizers. Armenians say Ottoman Turks
killed 1.5 million of their people in a campaign of genocide between
1915 and 1923. Turkey says the death count is inflated and insists
Armenians were killed or displaced in civil unrest.
© Copyright 2005 Star Tribune. All rights reserved.
http://www.startribune.com/stories/484/5426064.html
From: Emil Lazarian | Ararat NewsPress