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    TUSIAD PROMOTING INITIATIVE ON CREATING A PLATFORM
    By H. Chaqrian

    AZG Armenian Daily
    20/05/2008

    Genocide

    Aiming at Investigation of "The Events Concerning the Armenian Citizens
    of the Ottoman Empire in the period of World War 1"

    TUSAID, the Union of Turkish Entrepreneurs and Manufacturers (Turk
    Sanayicileri ve Ýþadamlarý Deneði), has started a campaign against
    the international recognition of the Armemian Genocide.

    The organization has made arrangement with American lawyer David
    Saltzman to prepare a report on H. Resolution 106.

    Saltzman's report, entitled "H. RES. 106: Legal and Factual
    Deficiencies", was published on May 16, during the "The Foundations of
    the Turkish-American Relationships in the 21st Century" conference,
    held in Washington. On May 17, according to "Zaman", TUSIAD spread
    a message giving some details on Saltzman's report.

    The message says that the preface for Saltzman's report was written
    by the TUSIAD executive staff and that the organization is preparing
    to create a platform for investigating "The Events Concerning the
    Armenian Citizens of the Ottoman Empire in the period of World War
    1". TUSIAD stresses that the controversies about those events and
    their extremely politicized discussions negatively affect Turkey's
    relations with its allies and rouse anti-Turkish attitudes in Europe.

    The preface of the report says that the public opinion on those
    events is formed with a one-sided point of view. "Due to partial
    appraisal of the facts, due to neglecting the counter-arguments and
    the historical platform of those events, the present approaches are
    enduring," it is said.

    The body text of the report says that it has been never legally
    approved that there are reasons to qualify the events of 1915 as
    Genocide. It says that the materials on Armenians' deportation, on the
    violence occurred during the deportation, on Armenians' rebellions and
    on other factors of reduction of Armenian population in Turkey are open
    public research. TUSIAD assures that impartial and open investigation
    of those issues is threatened by exceedingly politicized attitudes
    and that in such conditions determination of the historical truth
    and normalization of Armenia-Turkey relations are impossible.

    --Boundary_(ID_HZlS55baKwPnNbp1jE9Gyg )--
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