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    ORGANIZATIONS OF ARMENIAN COMMUNITY IN FRANCE AND GREEK AND CYPRIAN COMMUNITIES IN MARSEILLE SIGN JOINT STATEMENT

    NOYAN TAPAN - ARNENIANS TODAY
    JUNE 30, 2009
    PARIS

    PARIS, JUNE 30, NOYAN TAPAN - ARMENIANS TODAY. The Council on
    Coordination of Armenian Organizations in France (CCAF- Le Conseil de
    coordination des organisations armeniennes de France), the Cyprian
    community of France (Communaute chypriote de France), the Union of
    Greeks of Marseille region (Union hellenique de Marseille at de la
    Region) and the Greek community of Marseille (Communaute grecue de
    Marseille) signed a statement, in which they condemn the envisaged
    arrival of a Turkish ship in Marseille from the city of Foca (Turkey)
    - the former Greek city of Phocee, within the framework of Year of
    Turkey to be celebrated in France.

    The point is that on the same day 2,600 years ago a ship from the
    above mentioned Greek city was moored to the area of the present-day
    Marseille and its passengers founded the city of Marseille,
    hayernaysor.am reported, referring to Nouvelles d'Armenie monthly
    published in France. The statement says that the Turks have no right
    to follow the route taken by the Greeks because it was not them that
    founded the city of Marseille 2,600 years ago after having traveled on
    that route. According to the statement, to receive the Turkish ship
    in Marseille within the framework of Year of Turkey in France means
    to consign to oblivion all those Armenians who arrived in Marseille
    by ship after surviving the Armenian Genocide and also to forget the
    fact that Turkey occupied part of Cyprus in 1974.

    It is expected that the ship with Turkish participants in the events of
    Year of Turkey will leave Foca on July 1 when these events will start.
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