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    Turkey Parliamentarians Argue Over Who Killed Armenians

    http://www.armenianweekly.com/2013/01/04/turkey-parliamentarians-argue-over-who-killed-armenians/comment-page-1/
    January 4, 2013

    ANKARA, Turkey (A.W.) - The Grand National Assembly of Turkey (TGNA)
    witnessed an argument between parliamentarians over who killed the
    Armenians in the Ottoman Empire in 1915, Turkish newspapers reported
    on Jan. 3.


    `Your history is the history of massacres.'
    `Your history is a history of massacres. You know very well how the
    grandparents of those who are struggling today were killed,' said
    parliamentarian Sirri Sakik (Mush), from the pro-Kurdish Peace and
    Democracy Party (BDP), according to the Turkish newspaper Radikal.

    In the ensuing argument, parliamentarian Yusuf Halacoglu, from the
    Nationalist Movement Party (MHP), addressed Kurdish members of the
    National Assembly asking, `Then tell me frankly - and I, in turn, will
    show you all the documents - who killed the Armenians?'

    Halacoglu is the former director of the Turkish Historical Society.

    Other members of parliament pointed to massacres committed against
    Kurds, while parliamentarians from the ruling Justice and Development
    Party (AKP) argued that it is the Kurdish guerilla group PKK that has
    committed atrocities in Turkey, and that Turkish history is
    genocide-free.

    Nurettin Canikli, head of AKP parliamentary group said, `There is no
    massacre, genocide, and assimilation in this nation's history.'

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