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TURKISH PM SAYS "1915 INCIDENTS" SHOULD BE EXAMINED BY HISTORIANS
Anadolu Agency
March 29 2010
Turkey
Ankara, 29 March: Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan said
on Monday that 1915 incidents should be examined by historians,
not parliaments.
Replying questions of reporters about Armenian resolution on 1915
incidents during his joint press conference with German Chancellor
Angela Merkel, Erdogan said that Turkey's stance was obvious about
the issue.
We should leave this issue to historians; parliaments are not the
places to discuss this issue, added Erdogan.
Noting that he sent a letter to Armenia's former president Robert
Kocharian in 2005 (which proposes to set up a joint historians
commission to examine 1915 incidents), Erdogan said that he had not
received a response to the letter yet.
Erdogan said that currently there was a normalization process in
the relations between Turkey and Armenia, adding that decisions of
other countries (to adopt Armenian resolution on 1915 incidents)
were affecting the normalization process negatively.
Anadolu Agency
March 29 2010
Turkey
Ankara, 29 March: Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan said
on Monday that 1915 incidents should be examined by historians,
not parliaments.
Replying questions of reporters about Armenian resolution on 1915
incidents during his joint press conference with German Chancellor
Angela Merkel, Erdogan said that Turkey's stance was obvious about
the issue.
We should leave this issue to historians; parliaments are not the
places to discuss this issue, added Erdogan.
Noting that he sent a letter to Armenia's former president Robert
Kocharian in 2005 (which proposes to set up a joint historians
commission to examine 1915 incidents), Erdogan said that he had not
received a response to the letter yet.
Erdogan said that currently there was a normalization process in
the relations between Turkey and Armenia, adding that decisions of
other countries (to adopt Armenian resolution on 1915 incidents)
were affecting the normalization process negatively.