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    Emil Lazarian
  • 19 years ago
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ANKARA: Armenia Arrests Turkish Researcher Studying on Armenian past

Journal of Turkish weekly
June 20 2005

Armenia Arrests Turkish Researcher Studying on Armenian past

Yektan Turkyilmaz, the first Turkish researcher to receive a
permission to study Armenian international archives, has been
arrested at the Yerevan Airport. Turkyilmaz is accused by Armenia of
attempting to take history books to Turkey.

Turkish Prime Minister Tayyip Erdogan had called Armenia and Tashnaks
to open their archives. Turkish Ottoman archives have been opened for
the decades to all researchers from all over the world.

Armenia has resisted to open its archives. It is also argued that the
Tashnasks archives in the US contain vital documents about the 1915
events, Armenian immigrations and Tashnak-Nazi collaborations.

Emil Lazarian: “I should like to see any power of the world destroy this race, this small tribe of unimportant people, whose wars have all been fought and lost, whose structures have crumbled, literature is unread, music is unheard, and prayers are no more answered. Go ahead, destroy Armenia . See if you can do it. Send them into the desert without bread or water. Burn their homes and churches. Then see if they will not laugh, sing and pray again. For when two of them meet anywhere in the world, see if they will not create a New Armenia.” - WS
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