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[wolf_shadow]

This has just been indexed on the new PIMS database. It is a letter from the Turks to our government asking us, basically, to concur with their view that the Armenian massacre of 1915 did not happen.


Letter dated 28/04/2005 to Michael Martin MP, Speaker, from Bulent Armc, Speaker of the Turkish Grand National Assembly, enclosing a letter to the British Parliament from members of the Turkish Grand National Assembly regarding the "Blue Books" prepared by the British War Propaganda Bureau during World War One, specifically the section on "The treatment of Armenians in the Ottoman Empire 1915-1916".

Apparently the EU is insisting on Turkish acknowledgement of the 'incident' as a precondition of Turkey's accession into the EU...

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Background information:
(I have intentionally included Armenian, Turkish and International view-points...

Articles

1. Free speech an issue in Turkey's EU bid ~ Monsters and Critics.com


2. Conference examining massacre of Armenians to go ahead in Turkey ~ The Daily Star (Lebanon)


3. Turkish author Pamuk risks jail time over remarks on Armenian massacres ~ Middle East Times


4. Documents on Armenian Massacre of Muslims in French Archives ~ Zaman Online ('First Turkish Paper on the Internet')


5. Self-Determination and Realpolitik, Reflections on Kurds and Palestinians ~ Kurdistan Regional Government


6. Armenians say US failed them ~ BBC From Our Own Correspondent (26/01/2003)


7. Survivors of the Maraghar Massacre / Baroness Caroline Cox of Queensbury ~ Christianity Today, April 1998 Vol. 42, No. 5 [On Cilicia.com, an archive of resources relating to Armenia and Armenians].

Sites/Pages on the genocide:

1. United Human Rights Council


2. Wikipedia


3. Armenian-Genocide.org


4. BBC (Timeline)


5. War-time disinformation and "The Blue Book" from Tall Armenian Tale 'Supporting the case against the Armenian Genocide Myth with mostly impartial evidence'


6. Armenian Issue; Allegations-Facts: Armenian Rebellions and Massacres ~ Turkish Ministry of Culture (Part of a much larger resource)

Comments

[sauron19.livejournal.com]

Uhhh, are you sure you're allowed to publically publish this?

[wolf-shadow.livejournal.com]

Carefully. No opinion stated. All records in the public domain.

[ecobusman.livejournal.com]

he he he.. during my lunchtimes whilst working at 'a secret defence site' I used to trawl through the restricted intranet to see what was goin' on. I read about sonar trials that killed human divers and whales, about the storage of nuclear waste in the UK, research into new technologies like sonic ground vibrators, bionanotechnology etc. I'd read all the biographies from the terrorist updates, downloaded schematics for the secure web servers, I heard about the scientists who grew cannibis in 'secret labs.' and contractors that wrote their own pay cheques. One day I turned up to work without my pass (on purpose), to see if I could get in. No problems whatsoever. I probably shouldn't have mention any of that.. but hey arrest me! I've seen prison food! .. Yes I'm having a bad day.