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    DON'T ASK ME ABOUT GENOCIDE: TURKISH NGO LEADER LEAVES PRESS CONFERENCE UNFINISHED

    Tert.am
    30.04.10

    Salih Yuge, a Turkish political figure and President of Youth Union
    Association non-governmental organization, currently in Armenia,
    left a press conference today untimely due to questions over the
    Armenian Genocide.

    With the press conference yet to begin Yuge informed the journalists
    he would not answer to any question pertaining to Genocide and that
    he was in Armenia as a head of the NGO to establish a dialogue between
    the Armenian and Turkish societies.

    "I would like to inform you from the very beginning not to ask
    questions about Genocide, if you do ask anyway, they will go
    unanswered," said Yuge.

    Anyway, all the questions the Armenian journalists posed related to
    the Armenian Genocide in the break up of the Ottoman Empire in 1915.

    Yuge was answering them by saying that the history should be left
    to historians.

    "We are always ready for dialogue, and it does not depend on historical
    and political circumstances," said Yuge.

    Asked whether his decision not to answer to questions on the Armenian
    Genocide meant "we should forget about the past," Yuge said that
    political figures do their job, historians and NGOs, in turn, doing
    theirs as what pertains to the issue.

    But when the Armenian journalist kept on posing questions about the
    Genocide, Yuge, saying that they had agreed with the administration of
    the press club, hosting the press conference, to exclude such questions
    from the agenda, he did not consider it expedient to continue the
    press conference and left the hall.
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