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ANKARA RESPONDS TO ARMENIANS' BID AT LOS ANGELES COURT
Tert.am
13:24 27.09.11
The Los Angeles Federal District Court has heard Turkey's Central
and Agriculture Banks' response to the US Armenians' claim for lost
property compensation.
According to the Turkish newspaper Haberturk, the banks said in their
statement that they could not bear responsibility for the property
confiscated from Armenians in 1915. They argued their position by
the fact that the present-day Republic of Turkey was founded in 1923
(so it is not the successor of the Ottoman Empire).
The court had earlier ruled to hold Turkey a respondent in the trial.
But the Turkish side never showed up for the hearings., making the
US Department of State send a protest note to Ankara.
Three Los Angeles based Armenians - Alex Bakalian, Anais Harutyunian
and Rita Mahtesian - recently filed a lawsuit against the Turkish
Government, Central Bank and Agriculture Bank, demanding a sum of $63,9
million in compensation for the their grandparents' property lost
in Adana (a historical Armenian town which was part of the Ottoman
empire in 1915). The plaintiffs also demanded that the United States
pay part of the rental income it received from the Incirlik military
base. The total sum of the compensation was thus to make $100 million.
From: A. Papazian
Tert.am
13:24 27.09.11
The Los Angeles Federal District Court has heard Turkey's Central
and Agriculture Banks' response to the US Armenians' claim for lost
property compensation.
According to the Turkish newspaper Haberturk, the banks said in their
statement that they could not bear responsibility for the property
confiscated from Armenians in 1915. They argued their position by
the fact that the present-day Republic of Turkey was founded in 1923
(so it is not the successor of the Ottoman Empire).
The court had earlier ruled to hold Turkey a respondent in the trial.
But the Turkish side never showed up for the hearings., making the
US Department of State send a protest note to Ankara.
Three Los Angeles based Armenians - Alex Bakalian, Anais Harutyunian
and Rita Mahtesian - recently filed a lawsuit against the Turkish
Government, Central Bank and Agriculture Bank, demanding a sum of $63,9
million in compensation for the their grandparents' property lost
in Adana (a historical Armenian town which was part of the Ottoman
empire in 1915). The plaintiffs also demanded that the United States
pay part of the rental income it received from the Incirlik military
base. The total sum of the compensation was thus to make $100 million.
From: A. Papazian