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    Journal of Turkish Weekly
    May 3 2005

    An ignorant approach

    source: Hurriyet

    Following Turkish History Organization President Professor
    Halacoglu's insistent and public rejection of Armenian genocide
    claims, Switzerland has issued an order for the professor's arrest,
    and has trying to have Interpol prepare a "red bulletin" for arrest
    in his name.

    Foreign Minister Abdullah Gul issed a sharp response to the decision
    by Zurich Canton and some European parliaments to "forbid rejection
    of the Armenian genocide." Gul, speaking to Hurriyet, said that
    Europe making a "terrible mistake" and that if they did not realize
    this, Turkey would "show them their error by revealing the truth."
    Gul said that he thought Europe was trampling on its own foundations
    by issuing such decisions, and then queried "Isn't freedom of
    expression one of the cornerstones of Europe?" FM Gul also said that
    the decision taken by the Zurich Canton was anathema to the European
    Agreement on Human Rights.

    Not a court-backed decision

    Of the moves across Europe to ban outward rejection of the so-called
    Armenian genocide, Gul said further "There is nothing that has been
    proven. This is not a court decision. It is a politically motivated
    decision. How can you arrest a scientist (Professor Halacoglu) for
    something he is saying?"

    FM Gul went on to condemn the poltics of Armenian backed lobbies in
    European parliaments across the EU.
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