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    The New Anatolian, Turkey
    June 30 2005

    Foreign Parliaments to be Warned About Armenian Claims
    TNA Parliament Bureau /Ankara

    Human Rights Commission works to counter 'genocide' claim campaign

    Parliament Human Rights Commission Chairman Mehmet Elkatmis announced
    yesterday that the commission will sent to all foreign parliaments a
    statement to head off misunderstandings about the so-called Armenian
    genocide claims.

    Foreign Parliaments are making speculative decisions without
    knowing what they are doing, said Elkatmis, as they don't have
    enough information on the issue. He stated that the statement will
    be informative and that it will also include the commission's views
    on mistaken decisions.

    He said that they've informed all foreign parliaments about the
    Turkish Parliament'sdecisions concerning the so-called Armenian
    genocide claims, but that there are still people who are unaware
    that the Ottoman archives are open for investigation. He added that
    they're helping a Swiss university to research the Ottoman archives.

    During the meeting Elkatmis also said that the commission has decided
    to follow up the Mardin/Kiziltepe and Gumushane/Siran cases involving
    the deaths of two innocent security officers mistakenly thought to
    be terrorists.

    The commission will attend a memorial ceremony on July 10 for the
    anniversary of the Srebrenica massacre in Bosnia-Herzegovina. He
    added that after the Parliament's summer recess, the commission will
    continue its work. He stated that Dutch Foreign Ministry Human Rights
    Ambassador H. Piet de Klerk will visit the commission on July 4, adding
    that on July 6 European Commission Turkey Administrator Pierre Miel
    will also visit their commission to evaluate the latest developments
    in the implementation of the Copenhagen criteria.
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