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    >From the columns II

    TDN
    Thursday, May 19, 2005

    PRESS SCANNER
    PM is right on Armenian issue, butâ~@¦ :

    Hurriyet's Oktay Eksi focuses on Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan's
    remarks on the issue of the alleged Armenian genocide during a summit
    of European heads of government in Warsaw.

    Eksi reports that Armenian President Robert Kocharian said in front of
    the prime minister that Armenia hopes to gain international recognition
    of the Armenian genocide in Ottoman Turkey and thanked the countries
    that supported Armenia in its bid to bring the so-called genocide
    onto the international agenda.

    "Erdogan, who didn't contest the Armenian president's remarks at the
    time of Kocharian's speech, then held a press conference and leveled
    harsh criticisms at Kocharian," said Eksi.

    Concerning Erdogan's comments, Eksi says Erdogan threatened countries
    that have passed resolutions backing genocide claims with a campaign
    to pass counter-resolutions through the Turkish Parliament concerning
    genocides carried out by those countries.

    Eksi argued that passing resolutions through the Turkish Parliament
    would be easy, but implementing them would not be.

    In conclusion, Eksi says Turkey is charged with the task of showing
    those countries that committed large-scale genocides the true stories
    behind some of the darker days of their histories.

    No way out:

    Hurriyet's Bekir Coskun focuses on the performance of the ruling
    Justice and Development Party (AKP) and says that wise people are now
    looking for an alternative to the AKP but haven't managed to find a
    proper candidate.

    Coskun says no one will find a way to be rescued from the AKP and their
    policies unless a series of negative and challenging events unfold.

    "We can think of alternatives to the AKP only once things begin to go
    terribly wrong. No particular party has tried to take the place of the
    AKP with positive policies and new ideas," says Coskun, adding that
    the opposition is only looking for things that could cause people to
    turn against the AKP.

    --Boundary_(ID_A9Lr5INVtmZsIQRqzEbhEg)--

    From: Emil Lazarian | Ararat NewsPress
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