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    SCHIFF CALLS ON TURKEY TO RECOGNIZE GENOCIDE

    Yerkir
    02.09.2009 15:39

    Yerevan (Yerkir) - Reacting to the Monday's announcement of protocols
    for the establishment and development of relations between Armenia
    and Turkey, Rep. Adam Schiff (D-Calif.) said true reconciliation will
    occur when Turkey recognizes the Genocide, Asbarez reported.

    "While I welcome what may be an important step in the rapprochement
    between Armenia and Turkey and hope that the upcoming talks result in
    a swift opening of full diplomatic and commercial relations between
    Ankara and Yerevan, as well as a reopening of the border, I have
    serious concerns about some provisions of the protocols accompanying
    the announcement," said Schiff on Tuesday.

    "In particular, I was deeply disappointed to see that the protocols
    call for the creation of an historical commission to review the
    events of 1915-23. This is a thoroughly discredited idea; there is no
    dispute among scholars that the Armenian people were the subject of
    genocide during the waning days of the Ottoman Empire and an historical
    commission is another effort to obfuscate the truth," added Schiff.

    "Turkey cannot be allowed to re-write this tragic part of its
    history as a price for normal relations with Armenia. To do so means
    acquiescence in a charade that demeans the memory of so many victims,"
    explained the Congressman.

    "True reconciliation between the Armenian and20Turkish peoples will
    occur when Turkey acknowledges the genocide that was committed by
    the Ottoman Empire against Armenians from 1915 - 1923. The Armenian
    Genocide, the first genocide of the 20th Century, resulted in the
    deaths of 1.5 million Armenian men, women and children and the sorrow
    that the Armenian people carry in their hearts cannot be healed by
    diplomatic relations alone," reaffirmed Schiff.
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