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    Armenian Assembly of America
    1140 19th Street, NW, Suite 600
    Washington, DC 20036
    Phone: 202-393-3434
    Fax: 202-638-4904
    Email: [email protected]
    Web: www.armenianassembly.org


    MEDIA ALERT

    May 18, 2005

    CONTACT: Christine Kojoian
    Email: [email protected]

    RE: The Washington Times Publishes Assembly "Letter to the Editor"

    The Armenian Assembly of America would like to call your attention to
    the attached "Letter to the Editor," published today in The Washington
    Times by the Assembly Board of Directors Chairman Anthony Barsamian.
    The letter was written in response to Turkish Ambassador O. Faruk
    Logoglu's recently published commentary entitled, "To Reconcile Turks
    and Armenians."

    The letter can also be accessed at the following link:

    http://www.washingtontimes.com/op-ed/20050517-091437-2173r.htm

    TURKEY SHOULD FACE FACTS

    Dear Editor:

    It is disingenuous at best for Turkey's ambassador to the United
    States to tout his government's offer to establish a commission to
    study the Armenian genocide ("To reconcile Turks and Armenians,"
    Commentary, May 3). As the ambassador is well aware, more than 120
    Holocaust and genocide scholars have declared the Armenian genocide
    an incontestable fact. Furthermore, the International Center for
    Transitional Justice recently released a legal study implicitly
    supported by the Turkish government that declared "The Events, viewed
    collectively, can thus be said to include all of the elements of the
    crime of genocide as defined in the Convention, and legal scholars as
    well as historians, politicians, journalists and other people would
    be justified in continuing to so describe them."

    The scholars and lawyers have spoken. It is long past time for
    Turkey to face the judgment of history.

    ANTHONY BARSAMIAN
    Chairman, Board of Directors
    Armenian Assembly of America
    Washington

    The Armenian Assembly of America is the largest Washington-based
    nationwide organization promoting public understanding and awareness of
    Armenian issues. It is a 501(c)(3) tax-exempt membership organization.

    NR#2005-050
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