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    ARMENIAN AMBASSADOR TO US RESPONDS TO TURKISH AMBASSADOR'S ARTICLE IN NEW YORK TIMES

    Yerkir
    01.06.2006 18:00

    YEREVAN (YERKIR) -­ In response to an article by Turkish Ambassador
    to the United States Nabi Sensul published in the New York Times on
    May 24, and disputing the fact of the Armenian Genocide, Armenian
    Ambassador to US Tatul Margarian sent a letter to the newspaper.

    Margarian's letter appeared in the May 31 issue ofthe paper.

    "While the Turkish ambassador argues that the history should be left
    to historians, the Turkish government itself has made the history
    a precondition for normalizing relations with Armenia," the letter
    stated.

    "Turkey should first of all come to terms with its history and stop
    harassing Turkish authors who have the courage to study the events of
    1915. Only after that Turkish historians would be able to research the
    rich documents, including the death sentence rendered by the Turkish
    Court Martial in 1919 for the perpetrators of the Armenian Genocide."

    "Historians and lawyers, including Raphael Lemkin, the author of the
    term genocide, have long recognized that the 1915 events correspond to
    the description of a genocide defined by the 1948 Genocide Convention,"
    the letter went on saying.
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