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    TURKISH MINISTER CANCELS VISIT TO ARGENTINA OVER ARMENIAN GENOCIDE RESOLUTION

    Anatolia News Agency, Turkey
    April 25 2008

    ["NECESSARY INITIATIVES UNDERWAY ON TEXT BACKING ARMENIAN ALLEGATIONS,
    FOREIGN MINISTRY" - AA headline]

    ANKARA (A.A) -25.04.2008 -Turkish foreign ministry spokesman said on
    Friday that necessary initiatives were underway pertaining to the new
    text adopted by the Argentine Senate supporting Armenian allegations
    regarding 1915 events.

    The spokesman said Turkish State Minister Mehmet Aydin cancelled his
    visit to Argentine upon this development.

    Aydin was to attend "Alliance of Civilizations Initiative" in Argentina
    between April 28th and 29th.

    The spokesman said, "decision of the Argentina Senate contradicts
    historical facts and violates principles of international law."

    Turkey has long been facing a systematic campaign of defamation
    carried out by Armenian lobbying groups. The Armenian diaspora has
    lately increased its organized activities throughout the world for
    the recognition of their unfounded allegations in regard to the events
    of 1915 as "genocide" by national and local parliaments.

    Until today the parliaments of Argentina, Belgium, France, Netherlands,
    Switzerland, Italy, Canada, Lebanon, the Russian Federation, Slovakia,
    Uruguay, Greece, the Greek Cypriot administration, Poland, Germany,
    Lithuania, Chile, Venezuela and the European Parliament passed either
    resolutions or issued statements. In addition, some local parliaments
    in the USA, Canada, Britain, Australia, Argentina and Switzerland
    passed similar resolutions.

    Turkey is of the view that parliaments and other political institutions
    are not the appropriate fora to debate and pass judgments on disputed
    periods of history. Past events and controversial periods of history
    should be left to the historians for their dispassionate study and
    evaluation.

    In 2005, Turkey has officially proposed to the government of Armenia
    the establishment of a joint commission of history composed of
    historians and other experts from both sides to study together the
    events of 1915 not only in the archives of Turkey and Armenia but also
    in the archives of all relevant third countries and to share their
    findings with the public. Unfortunately, Armenia has not responded
    positively to this initiative, yet. Turkey's proposal is still on
    the table.
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