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  • ANKARA: Armenian Genocide Not A Historical Reality: Tan

    ALLEGED ARMENIAN GENOCIDE NOT A HISTORICAL REALITY: TAN

    NTV MSNBC, Turkey
    Sept 28 2006

    A number of electoral candidates of Turkish origin have been struck
    off their party's lists to contest the November 22 ballot.

    Guncelleme: 17:51 TSÝ 28 Eylul 2006 PerþembeANKARA - It is a worrying
    development that some political parties in Holland have banned ethnic
    Turkish candidates from standing in elections unless they accept that
    the Ottoman Empire committed an act of genocide against its Armenian
    community during World War One, a spokesman for the Turkish Foreign
    Ministry said.

    "We are deeply worried about the one-sided approach of our ally
    Netherlands' political parties on the so-called Armenian genocide as
    this puts a limit on the freedom of expression" said Foreign Ministry
    spokesman Namik Tan said Thursday. "It is not possible to accept
    allegations on so-called Armenian genocide as historical reality."

    Three candidates of Turkish origin were removed from party lists for
    the forthcoming elections on November 22 as a result of lobbying by
    Holland's Armenian community.

    Tan said that Turkey had done all that had been asked of it to assist
    in looking into the incidents of 1915.

    "Turkey has opened all archives, including military ones, so that
    the incidents of 1915 can be studied from a scientific perspective,"
    he said.

    "Turkey offered to establish a committee of historians from both
    Turkey and Armenia to study the incidents of 1915."

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