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    ARMENIAN DIASPORA CALLS ON TURKEY TO OPEN BORDER AND ARCHIVES

    19:11, 31 Mar 2015
    Siranush Ghazanchyan

    Delegates of the 4th Congress of Western Armenians released a list
    of demands from the Turkish Republic in Paris on Sunday, including
    the opening of the Turkish-Armenian border and providing unlimited
    access to historical archives, Today's Zaman reports.

    The descendants of Armenians who were living and persecuted during
    the Ottoman Empire have made the following demands of the Turkish
    government: "Open the Turkish border with the Republic of Armenia
    immediately and without preconditions and initiate a number of steps
    for the establishment of interstate confidence and friendly relations
    with the authorities and population of the Armenian state, among whom
    live hundreds of thousands of descendants of Western Armenians."

    The delegation also called for unlimited access to historical
    archives from the Ottoman Empire, stating this is "necessary for the
    re-establishment of the rights of Western Armenians. This should
    include all cadastre and civil state archives, in addition to all
    information related to our moral and material losses (damages incurred
    whether pecuniary or non-pecuniary) and relevant rights."

    On March 19, Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan slammed the
    Armenian diaspora, saying: "Oh, Armenian diaspora, oh, Armenian
    administration, our archives are here. We have hundreds of thousands
    of documents, over a million documents. How many documents do you
    have? Bring your documents, and we will task the historians, our
    historians, political scientists, even archeologists and lawyers
    [with studying them]... let's seek the truth here," he said, adding
    that "anti-Turkey campaigns carried out by paying money and forming
    lobbies will not earn you anything."

    The memorandum published by the Armenian congress also called for
    the recognition of the National Congress of Western Armenians as a
    legal entity in Turkey, and that it is the indisputable right for the
    Armenian ethnic entity to return to their homeland and rehabilitate
    all community properties such as schools and churches.

    http://www.armradio.am/en/2015/03/31/armenian-diaspora-calls-on-turkey-to-open-border-and-archives/

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