Zaman, Turkey
April 14 2005
Turkish Parliament Rebuffs the ‘Blue Book’
By Zaman
Published: Thursday 14, 2005
zaman.com
Turkish parliament has sent a letter to the British House of Lords
and House of Commons denying the ‘Blue Book’, which is the source of
the allegations of Armenian genocide.
All deputies including Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan and the
opposition Republican People’s Party (CHP) leader Deniz Baykal have
signed the letter and listed sources which contradict the
allegations. The letter highlights that the “Blue Book” was prepared
by the British War Propaganda Bureau and includes other baseless
allegations. The book’s author Arnold Toynbee even confessed that the
book was a propaganda tool, the parliamentary letter claims.
According to the documents put forward by independent researchers,
the British aimed to gain US support for colonialist policies in
Anatolia under the excuse of the Armenian genocide and Armenian
writers were asked to give eyewitness reports of imaginary incidents.
The independent documents say that seventy-five percent of news
reports sent by agencies were destroyed.
The Turkish parliamentary letter says that the malign and destructive
impacts of the book still continue and that it should be announced as
baseless by the British parliament.