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    Billings Gazette
    Sept 25 2005

    Turkish scholars look at Armenian question

    ISTANBUL, Turkey - Scholars held the first-ever public discussions in
    Turkey on Saturday about the early 20th-century massacre of
    Armenians, choosing words carefully, avoiding emotional language and
    picking apart history year by year at a gathering that nationalists
    denounced as traitorous.

    The academic conference had been canceled twice, once in May after
    the justice minister said organizers were "stabbing the people in the
    back," and again on Thursday when an Istanbul court ordered the
    conference closed and demanded to know the academic qualifications of
    the speakers.

    The Armenian issue stirs deep passions among Turks, who are being
    pushed by many in the international community to say that their
    fathers and grandfathers carried out the genocide.
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