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Turkey Parliamentarians Argue Over Who Killed Armenians
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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.'
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.'