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    "GENOCIDE" ALLEGATION FROM ASSYRIANS, CHALDEANS

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    Turkish Press
    Oct 17 2005

    Press Review

    A group of Assyrians and Chaldeans has dedicated a monument in Paris
    to an alleged "genocide" committed against them in the waning days of
    the Ottoman Empire. Some 10,000 Assyrian-Chaldeans live in Paris. The
    monument is near a similar to the so-called Armenian genocide.

    Francois Pupponi, the socialist mayor of Paris' Sarcelles district,
    said in a dedication speech that the monument was meant to show deep
    sympathy for the Assyrian-Chaldean people who died 1915. He also
    added that as long as Turkey resists the genocide allegations it will
    never join the European Union. A Chaldean Iraqi parliamentarian,
    Yonadam Kanna, also reportedly attended the dedication ceremony,
    saying that the monument is not a symbol of hostility between Turkey
    and Iraq but would help raise awareness of the subject.
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