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    Armenian National Committee of Canada
    130 Albert St., Suite 1007
    Ottawa, ON
    KIP 5G4
    Tel. (613) 235-2622 Fax (613) 238-2622
    E-mail:[email protected]

    Fo r Immediate Release

    October 30, 2006

    Contact: Kevork Manguelian
    Tel. (613) 235-2622

    Canadian Media Tricked by Turkish Propaganda


    Ottawa-In the past few days some Canadian media outlets have
    published articles about the Turkish government's so-called proposal
    for a commission of historians to study the Armenian Genocide. The
    Canadian-Armenian community is appalled and outraged to see respected
    media institutions being manipulated by the Turkish government's public
    relations machine and accepting Ankara's big lie hook, line and sinker.

    The Turkish government's public relations strategy of so-called
    "opening of archives" and its "call for a historians commission"
    to study the mass annihilation of Armenians are diversions from
    its culpability in the first genocide of the 20th century. Despite
    decades of costly international public relations campaigns, the Turkish
    government's revisionist stance of denying the Armenian Genocide has
    failed to persuade the international community.

    Over 450 historians, international law experts and global organizations
    have already researched and studied the Armenian Genocide and have come
    to the unanimous decision that it's an incontestable historical fact.

    In February 2003, upon the request of the Turkish-Armenian
    Reconciliation Commission (which included six Turks, among them
    former Turkish ambassador and army general, and four Armenians) the
    International Centre for Transitional Justice (ICTJ) conducted an
    independent study on the Armenian Genocide. The ICTJ study concluded:
    "The 1915 mass killing and deportations of Ottoman Armenians meet
    the four basic criteria laid out by the 1948 UN Convention on the
    Prevention and Punishment of the crime of Genocide." After the ICTJ
    conclusion, the Turkish side abruptly pulled out of the commission
    and did not accept the ICTJ report.

    Aris Babikian, executive director, Armenian National Committee of
    Canada, said: "Why does the Turkish government want to re-invent the
    wheel all over again? Why try to prove something that has been proved
    again and again by bipartisan historians and scholars? Rather that
    trying to distract and mislead the media, why doesn't the Turkish
    government allow its own historians and intellectuals to express
    their convictions on this vital subject without fear of persecution?

    "We urge the Canadian media to be more vigilant in their handling
    of Ankara-issued news releases intended to confuse and mislead our
    media," added Babikian.

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    The ANCC is the largest and the most influential Canadian-Armenian
    grassroots political organization. Working in coordination with a
    network of offices, chapters, and supporters throughout Canada and
    affiliated organizations around the world, the ANCC actively advances
    the concerns of the Canadian-Armenian community on a broad range
    of issues.

    Regional Chapters Montreal - Laval - Ottawa - Toronto - Hamilton -
    Cambridge - St.

    Catharines - Windsor - Vancouver
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