Month: June 2005

PRESIDENT ILHAM ALIYEV PAYS VISIT TO RUSSIA
2005-06-13 09:23
Azerbaijan News Service
June 13 2005
President Ilham Aliyev is leaving for Russia on June 13th to attend
9th International Petersburg Economic Forum. Within his visit Ilham
Aliyev will meet his Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin and discuss
issues of bilateral cooperation, regional and international problems
including legal status of the Caspian. The sides will mainly focus
on Russia’s role in settlement of Daqliq Qarabaq conflict.

«Lycos ne délocalise pas sauvagement»
Libération, France
lundi 13 juin 2005
Matthieu Guinard, directeur général de Lycos France, s’explique sur
la révélation du comité d’entreprise de suppressions de postes et de
propositions de reclassement en Arménie.
Par Frédérique ROUSSEL
On a appris le 23 mai que Lycos France préparait un plan de 75
suppressions d’emploi… (lire article)
Depuis 2004, nous avons amorcé une politique d’optimisation des
coûts. Nous avons réussi à réduire nos pertes de 56 à 35 millions
d’euros en 2004. Aujourd’hui notre entité Europe n’est pas rentable.
Nous avons vécu une période de croissance externe en 2000-01 en
rachetant Spray, Multimania, Caramail, qui a diversifié nos revenus.
Ces acquisitions nous ont permis de nous positionner en tant que
leader sur le mail, le chat et l’hébergement: nous sommes premier
dans l’hébergement et le chat en France, cinquième en Europe… Mais
la situation économique et financière de l’entreprise demande
aujourd’hui des restructurations. Notre objectif est d’être rentable
au premier trimestre 2006 et profitable ~V d’arriver au point mort~V au
dernier trimestre de la même année.
En quoi consiste le volet humain des restructurations?
Deux cent suppressions de postes sont prévues au total en Europe. Le
plan de sauvegarde pour l’emploi en France a été annoncé début 2005.
Dans le cadre de ce plan, nous sommes obligés d’offrir des mesures de
reclassement. Elles sont essentiellement situées en Arménie, à
Erevan, dans une filiale acquise en 2002, et en Allemagne, au siège,
à Guterslow.
Vous projetez donc de délocaliser.
On a plus ou moins été associé aux entreprises alsacienne et bretonne
qui délocalisent en Roumanie et à l’Ile Maurice. On fait des
transferts, mais ce n’est pas une délocalisation sauvage et du
dumping social. Il est faux que nous offrons des salaires entre 300
et 500 euros. Si les employés acceptent nos propositions de
reclassement, leur salaire en Arménie ou en Allemagne sera calqué sur
le salaire français. Il sera accompagné d’aides financières
complémentaires, pour le logement et la scolarisation des enfants.
Notre volonté est de reclasser un maximum de personnel. Si le salarié
ne le souhaite pas, il sera procédé à un licenciement avec des
mesures de formation, d’aide à la création d’entreprise et
d’outplacing.
Quels sont les postes concernés?
On est en pleine négociation avec le comité d’entreprise. Ce sont les
fonctions d’hébergement et de mail qui sont principalement
concernées. La plate-forme contenu et services (régie commerciale,
marketing, design, éditorial et webdéveloppement) n’est quasiment pas
touchée. Sur les 109 postes que compte la France, 62 postes qui
étaient pourvus sont supprimés, le reste concerne la suppression de
postes vacants ou gelés. La situation devrait être clarifiée d’ici la
fin juillet.
Quel sont les projets d’avenir?
Nous avons des acteurs autour de nous qui se positionnent de façon
très agressive. Le moteur de recherche Google par exemple va de plus
en plus vers du contenu. On souhaite mettre les moyens pour garder
notre cinquième place sur le marché européen. Nous préparons pour
septembre un produit de blog révolutionnaire par rapport à ce qui
existe sur le marché. C’est une application en plein dans l’esprit
Lycos. Nous avons toujours montré une capacité d’innovation sur
l’Internet, peut-être un peu moindre ces deux dernières années.
–Boundary_(ID_oD/MzPED/q5xKkA/Z+u6bA)–

Députés turcs en Suisse: question arménienne en toile de fond
SwissInfo, Suisse
lundi 13 juin 2005
BERNE – Une délégation de la commission de politique extérieure
du Parlement turc a entamé une visite en Suisse. Les députés
rencontreront Micheline Calmy-Rey et Joseph Deiss, alors que les
relations bilatérales ont souffert de la question arménienne.
La visite dure cinq jours. Selon le secrétariat de la Commission du
Conseil des Etats, les hôtes turcs doivent s’entretenir mardi avec la
cheffe de la diplomatie Micheline Calmy-Rey ainsi qu’avec le patron du
Département fédéral de l’économie (DFE) Joseph Deiss. Des discussions
sont aussi prévues ce jour-là avec les présidents du Conseil national
Thérèse Meyer et du Conseil des Etats Bruno Frick.
Mme Meyer préside la Chambre qui a reconnu en 2003 le génocide
arménien, suscitant les vives protestations d’Ankara. Au niveau
cantonal, le génocide a été reconnu par les autorités genevoises
(Conseil d’Etat et parlement) et par le Grand Conseil vaudois.
Suite à ces décisions, une visite de Micheline Calmy-Rey prévue
en septembre 2003 avait été annulée par la Turquie. Il aura fallu
attendre mars dernier pour que ce déplacement puisse avoir lieu.
Mais l’embellie aura été de courte durée. Le ministre turc du
commerce extérieur Kürsad Tüzmen vient en effet d’annuler une visite
qu’il devait effectuer fin juin en Suisse. Une rencontre avec M.
Deiss était notamment au menu.
Selon la presse turque, le ministre a voulu manifester sa mauvaise
humeur après l’ouverture par la justice suisse d’une enquête pour
violation de la norme anti-raciste visant l’historien turc Yusuf
Halacoglu. Ce dernier se serait rendu coupable de négation du génocide
arménien lors d’un discours tenu en mai 2004 à Winterthour.
Le président de l’Institut d’histoire turque est l’un des principaux
défenseurs des thèses turques sur les massacres commis entre 1915 et
1917 par le pouvoir ottoman contre les Arméniens.
D’après Ankara, il s’agissait d’une répression dans un contexte de
guerre civile. Selon les Arméniens, 1,5 million des leurs ont été
tués au cours des massacres, qui ont été officiellement reconnus comme
“génocide” par plusieurs pays.
–Boundary_(ID_dHcjnylRyr+Ru08yPVxoXw)–
From: Emil Lazarian | Ararat NewsPress

Akp Deputy Comez Says Armenia Should Give Up Its Allegations
Turkish Press
June 13 2005
YEREVAN (AA) – Turkish Justice and Development Party (AKP) deputy from
Balikesir Dr. Turhan Comez said that new initiative should be launched
in regard to so-called Armenian genocide, adding that Armenia should
give up its genocide allegations.
Comez, continuing his tour of Yerevan, had a meeting with Armenian
deputy Hacat Sukyasyan.
Comez and Sukyasyan exchanged views on development of relations
between Turkey and Armenia.
“There had been sufferings in 1915. Many Ottomans lost their
lives… Armenian people also died. The two countries should carry
out a joint study. When I deliver a speech at the Turkish Parliament
for opening of Armenian border gate, at the same time you can deliver
a speech at your parliament saying that incidents happened in 1915
were not genocide; that historians should study these issues and that
Armenia should respect the territorial integrity of Turkey. Maybe,
it is a small step, but it will be an important beginning,” Comez
told Sukyasyan.
Sukyasyan noted that the two countries should leave aside problems
between them, stating that border gate should be opened by Turkey
and Armenia.
Stressing that after border gate was opened, the two countries would
further improve, Sukyasyan added that Turkey and Armenia should
further develop the region together.

A.K.P. Deputy Comez In Yerevan
Turkish Press
June 13 2005
YEREVAN (AA) – Turkish Justice and Development Party (AKP) deputy from
Balikesir Dr. Turhan Comez has participated in a kidney surgery of
a 75 year old Armenian woman at the Saint Nerses Hospital in Yerevan
today (Saturday).
Continuing his tour of Yerevan, Dr. Comez met the chief doctor of
the Saint Nerses Hospital Dr. Savak Avakyan.
Avakyan indicated that his hospital serves the economically
disadvantaged. “Armenia is one of those countries where the number
of doctors and nurses is very high. There are 14,000 medical doctors
and 35,000 nurses in Armenia,” told Avakyan.
Avakyan commented that an Armenian doctor has been sent to Istanbul
for further training. “This doctor will hold a scientific meeting
with his Turkish counterparts in Istanbul.”
Dr. Comez participated in the kidney surgery of Seda Steponyan. Prior
to the surgery, Comez held the hands of Steponyan and tried to give
her morale.
Comez told Steponyan that he is Turkish and is willing to assist in
Steponyan’s surgery. In response to Comez’s proposal, Steponyan said
that she has a doctor. “However,” stated Steponyan, “I have confidence
in you as well.”
Comez met Yerevan’s mayor Yervant Zakaryan after the surgery at Saint
Nerses Hospital.

BP News, TN
June 13 2005
IN SEARCH OF NOAH’S ARK: Part 7 — Hassan Baba, ‘keeper of the Ark’
Jun 13, 2005
By Tom Engleman & Chuck Hughes
EDITORS’ NOTE: Few Old Testament stories capture the imagination like
Noah’s Ark. Fascination with the possibility of actually finding the
Ark’s remains has inspired expeditions to the Mt. Ararat region of
Turkey for centuries. In the fall of 2004, Baptist Press sent two
journalists — Tom Engleman of Atlanta and Chuck Hughes of Baltimore
— to Turkey in order to document the continuing search for Noah’s
Ark. What follows is the seventh of 11 installments from their
journals about the experience. Our series supplements their story
with an array of sidelights, including glimpses into Ark expeditions
conducted by one of the best known and most controversial of the
searchers, the late Ron Wyatt of Madison, Tenn.
DOBI, Turkey (BP)–Following are journal entries from two men in
search of Noah’s Ark.
CHUCK: After our battle with the rocky hillock, our drive is pretty
peaceful. We arrive at the Durupinar site, named after a Turkish
military captain who reported an unusual formation pointed out to him
by a local shepherd. This is the site researched by Ron Wyatt and
David Fasold, which the Turkish government formally identified as the
resting place of Noah’s Ark.
The claim is controversial in some sectors. Wyatt was trained as a
medical technician, not as an archeologist, and professionals
criticize his findings as amateur. Some question his unorthodox
methods and his claims to other, almost-unbelievable discoveries.
Groups like our partners in the Ark Research Project believe that if
the remains of the Ark are to be found, it will be on the higher
reaches of Mt. Ararat itself. That is the reason we have come to
climb.
In 1986, however, Turkish scientists and government officials
examined Wyatt’s evidence from the Durupinar site and decided the
unusual formation there was indeed the remains of the Ark. There is a
visitors’ center, with signs that point “To Noah’s Ark.” In the
distance, just northeast of the visitors’ center, lies a petrified
stone formation shaped like a giant boat.
Here we meet Hassan Baba, the “grandfather” keeper of the Ark. He
warmly invites us in and tells us in both Turkish and broken English
how he was good friends with Wyatt and Fasold. He says he was there
when they began their research — and that he had a full head of
black hair at the time. Pictures on the wall show him with both
Americans and others. For more than 20 years now, he has tended to
the Ark and its environment. He shoos away intruders and brash camera
people and won’t allow TV cameras or crews near the site without
permission from the government.
He is a gracious and delightful host, willing to talk for hours about
the site and his involvement. But this would be another (20-year)
story, so we bid him farewell. This man deserves the respect he has
earned as the keeper of the Ark.
Back at the hotel, we eat a little and inspect the fifth-floor area
where we plan to interview Ismet. We see our new friend, but tonight
he ignores us. It appears something is wrong. We try to speak to him,
but he brushes us off. Something definitely is amiss. We retire from
this otherwise perfect day with this last, troubling thought.
Day 5
We meet for breakfast at 7:30 a.m. I have been wondering what could
possibly be wrong and how we may have insulted or otherwise upset
Ismet. The explanation isn’t long in coming.
The Baptist tells us that he couldn’t sleep last night and went
downstairs, where he happened to see Ismet. He still was brusque but
told the Baptist that the “jandarma” and secret police had been
asking about us. He said he was told we were filming but did not seem
to be on the list of people with permits to do so. He had been
interrogated and didn’t much care for it.
Tom and I are shocked. We were told by the Turkish consulate in New
York and by other experienced people that permits were unnecessary.
We are absolutely stunned.
I rush to the Internet cafe at 8:30 and wait for the door to open. I
quickly get the telephone and fax numbers of the American consulate,
and Tom, the Baptist and I hurriedly search for a phone to call the
consulate. I make the call and explain our situation. The consulate
asks us to call again in 20 minutes. We get three different numbers
for the Turkish Ministry of Culture and Tourism. The Baptist makes
that call, since it will be easier for him to converse.
The Ministry of Culture and Tourism also is extremely helpful. We can
do everything required by the government via fax and receive our
permits as early as the next day. We wait until well after lunch for
the fax from the ministry to arrive. Once it arrives, copies have to
be made at a local copy shop, an individual permit for each of us has
to be completed, and everything has to be faxed back to the ministry
before 5 p.m. so it can be authorized and returned by tomorrow.
While we are waiting in the hotel lobby, sipping tea, Ismet walks by.
I comment that he is a very busy man and this opens a dialogue. We
explain that we were totally unaware of the needed permit and that we
had taken steps to conform to the legal requirements. We apologize
for the inconvenience we caused and Tom presents Ismet with his
climbing jacket as a gift of apology and sincere thanks. The
conversation blossoms into a spirit of caring and of sharing
information.
We get everything completed by 3:30! With that out of the way, we are
mentally exhausted. We rest an hour or so and go back to the lobby.
We eat dinner, stop at the Internet cafe for messages and advise our
contacts as to what is happening. We return to the hotel by 7:30.
We meet Ismet in the lobby. We have been accepted by the climbing
federation and will be able to accompany them to the first base camp
at 11,200 feet, filming and interviewing as we go. It appears,
although we did not intend to, that we are going up the mountain if
the permits come through.
After drinking tea with some of the climbers, Ismet approaches us.
The local military commander wants a word with Tom. The Baptist
interprets because the commander does not — or will not — speak
English. I go upstairs to write the day’s journal. The commander is
not a happy camper. Evidently, he heard we went directly to Ankara
for our permit. We are about to get overnight what ordinarily takes
weeks.
The commander has had a little “raki,” the local liquor, and he is
sharp and irritated, almost nasty. Although he isn’t speaking
English, his tone speaks volumes. According to the Baptist, the
Turkish secret service, local police, jandarma and military are all
looking for two Australians and an American who also have been
shooting in the area. The commander is demanding information we don’t
have, and he doesn’t believe that we don’t know the whereabouts of at
least the American.
The commander tells Tom that we need to see him after we obtain our
permit and that we will need the military’s permission, as well as
the permit from Ankara. I smell another fee coming up. You know, all
Americans are rich and have money to burn. We’re on a shoestring
budget, and if we have many more of these extra charges, they are
going to send us packing.
The Turkish secret service has been following us since we landed in
Ankara, mostly because we have some pretty sophisticated camera
equipment to film the Victory Climb, the climbing group’s ascent to
Ararat’s summit. Anyone with a commercial-grade camera will be
followed until they are processed through the Ministry of Culture and
Tourism and meet local guidelines and permit requirements. Even after
that, you are closely watched, as filming of the military and certain
areas of the mountain is strictly forbidden.
In the past, Turkey has been burned by some unscrupulous journalists
who were looking for stories about the Armenian genocides and the
treatment of Kurdish peoples in the ancient past. Still and video
cameras are forbidden in most of the smaller villages and sheepherder
areas on and around the mountain. News events like the Victory Climb
are usually OK to shoot, but you can’t stray from your planned path.
This has been an eye- and wallet-opening experience. The expenses
here are not simply room and board. The prices for permits, faxes,
telephone, peripherals and, yes, even bribes will dig into even the
most well-lined pocket.
We didn’t get to sleep until well after midnight, discussing our
plans and alternatives. We definitely would not do anything illegal
and need to conform to local policy. As for obtaining permits, we’ll
have to wait until tomorrow to see if they come through.
Our prayers comfort us, and we know we will be directed in the path
He intends.
NEXT: The outpost commander
From: Emil Lazarian | Ararat NewsPress

Erdogan Leaves New York For Turkey
Turkish Press
June 11 2005
NEW YORK (AA) – Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan who
completed his meetings in New York, left for Turkey on Saturday.
State Minister Ali Babacan, National Defense Minister Vecdi Gonul,
deputies and prime ministry advisers who accompany Erdogan in his
visit to the US, will also return to Turkey.
Turkish Foreign Minister and Deputy Prime Minister Abdullah Gul is
expected to leave New York for Turkey later.
ERTEGUN’S DINNER
Before his departure, Prime Minister Erdogan attended the dinner
hosted by Ahmet Ertegun, one of the successful Turkish businessmen
living in the US, in his honor.
UN Secretary General Kofi Annan and many American politicians,
journalists and artists attended the night.
RECEPTION HOSTED BY TURKS LIVING IN US
Erdogan also attended a reception hosted in his honor by the Turkish
community living in the US.
Addressing the reception, Erdogan said that he held positive meetings
in the US.
“We had meetings about the investments of the big American companies
and businessmen in Turkey. Turkey is a stable country and the economic
parameters in Turkey are on the rise. Turkey stands on its feet,”
Erdogan said. Referring to employment problem in Turkey, Erdogan
said that the government worked hard to sort out this problem by the
investments made in service, agriculture and industry sectors.
Later Erdogan chatted with the Turkish people living in the US during
the reception.
Erdogan also met American businessmen on another occasion and was
interviewed by National Public Radio.
ERDOGAN VISITS THE NEW YORK TIMES
Erdogan got together with the Editorial Council of the New York Times
earlier the same day.
Prime Ministry Spokesman Akif Beki told the AA that the editors of the
New York Times criticized the postponement of the Armenian Conference
in Istanbul and Justice Minister Cemil Cicek’s remarks on this subject.
Erdogan informed the New York Times editors that Cicek’s statements
represented his own personal viewpoint and not that of the Turkish
government. “I stated that there is no legal barrier against such an
Armenian Conference in Istanbul. I support such a conference although
I do not agree with the notions that were to be expressed at the
Istanbul conference,” commented Erdogan.
Erdogan expressed that Turkey has opened its archives to all
scholars. The New York Times may look at these archives if it wishes
to, noted Erdogan.
Erdogan made a call to all the New York Times editors to visit Turkey
and study the archives.
The NY Times editors assured Erdogan that they will include Erdogan’s
statements in their upcoming articles.
Erdogan also went to Connecticut to see the factory of Skorsky
helicopters the same day.

‘Border issue’ defines Turkish lawmaker’s Armenian visit
Journal of Turkish Weekly
June 13 2005
ANKARA – The opening of the Turkey – Armenia border became the main
issue of ruling Justice and Development (AK) Party deputy Turhan
Comez’s visit to Armenia over the weekend.
Comez suggested that Armenian lawmaker Hacat Sukyasian and himself
should deliver speeches at their respective Parliaments and ask them
to find further solutions to the so-called genocide claims and the
opening of borders between the two countries.
During his meeting with Sukyasian, Comez exchanged views on the
development of Turkish-Armenian relations and asked the Armenians to
renounce their allegations.
“Let’s both make a joint study,” Comez said. “When I deliver a speech
at my Parliament on the opening of the border gate, you too address
your Parliament and say that the events of 1915 were not “genocide”
but that the issue will be researched by historians. This would be
a little step but an important beginning,” he said.
Sukyasian stated that problems should be left aside but that the
border gate should be opened immediately.
“Those events have made us enemies. Once the border is open we may
have the chance of joint expansion and growth. Let’s develop this
region together,” he proposed.
Turkey closed the border in 1993 after Armenian forces occupied 20
percent of Azerbaijan. Armenian troops also threatened the Turkey
and Iran borders. A 1994 truce largely ended hostilities but a final
settlement has not been reached. Yerevan rejects to withdraw from
the occupied territories.
Armenia considers the ending of the ‘Turkish trade embargo’ on Armenia
the key to better relations, but the heart of their estrangement
is Turkey’s refusal to accept Armenia’s charge that Ottoman Turks
committed “genocide” against Armenians. Armenia says as many as 1.5
million Armenians died violently or of disease and hunger in the period
1915-1923, as they were relocated from eastern Ottoman Empire. Turkey
maintains that the figures have been inflated and that the deaths
resulted from efforts to secure the Ottoman Empire’s border with
Russia, and defend it against Armenian militants. 523,000 Turkish
people were masscred by the Armenian militants during the last years
of the Ottoman Empire. The Armenian terrorists killed more than 40
Turkish diplomats and statesmen after the 1915 events.
Turkey says both sides first have to focus on the current issues
instead of the historcial disputes. Ankara further urged the Yerevan
to set a joint commission to discuss the historcial problems.
From: Emil Lazarian | Ararat NewsPress

7DAYS, United Arab Emirates
June 13 2005
Manure mission: the dung thing
Written by 7DAYS | Tuesday, 14 June 2005
Zhuzhuna Didebashvili is dreaming about warmth, hot tea, cheap power
and most specifically about cow dung. The 46-year-old farmer from the
tiny mountain village of Akhaldaba thinks cows could be the secure
energy source that will protect Georgians from the whims of the
global gas market.
“Every morning, before I go to work on my farm, I boil tea or milk on
this gas stove, and it all comes from the cows I keep,” she said,
pointing to a pipe connecting her stove to an underground tank where
she dumps her cow dung. By vigorously churning the tank every day,
she helps the noxious mixture rot and produce the methane that heats
her tea.
The gas helps to keep her immune from the energy shortages that have
plagued the small Caucasus nation since the end of the Soviet Union,
when Georgia was left without the capacity to supply itself with
power. Most Georgians cannot afford to supplement their energy supply
with expensive power imports from Russia and Armenia.
Didebashvili’s 62-year-old neighbour Elisabed has only three cows
but, enthused by her neighbour’s example, built herself a stove that
now helps her keep up her supply of jam. Only around 140 Georgian
households use cow-powered stoves. But for those families it has been
a major innovation that makes gas cooking easy in places too remote
for a steady supply.
Nine households in Akhaldaba – a village 25 km (16 miles) from the
capital Tbilisi where the power station was long ago looted in the
post-Soviet chaos – get gas from their cows. The others have to
depend on firewood for cooking and heat. “In the past I needed two
trucks of firewood for heating and cooking, now I need only one
truck,” Elisabed said.
Didebashvili dreams of owning enough cows to power a generator, but
appreciates this might be a long way off. “This is only a dream. In
order to get electricity, perhaps I would need a hundred cows, I
would have to become a true farmer,” she said.
For her gas she can thank Avtandil Bitsadze, an engineer who lost his
job in a factory with the economic collapse that followed the fall of
the Soviet Union and invented the stoves as a way around the
country’s periodic energy crises.
He has even won World Bank support for his plants, which cost about
$2,000 to construct. “I built the first power plants in 1994. Demand
for such plants emerged in Western Georgia, where peasants keep more
cows than in the east,” Bitsadze said, saying he took the idea from
similar plants in Britain and China.
“I didn’t invent this device, I just adapted it for the cooler
Georgian climate,” Bitsadze said. His plants can be extended to allow
farmers to heat their houses, although that would require at least
15-20 cows. “This is very a easy way to get energy. Gas can be
produced from anything that rots, but this gas is much purer than
natural gas, for example, from Azerbaijan,” Bitsadze said.
Georgia’s Ministry of Agriculture plans to finance a mere 65 more
such power plants, which will displace only a tiny fraction of the
1.2 billion cubic metres of natural gas Georgia imports from Russia
each year. But Bitsadze is thinking big. “If 240,000 families in
Georgia decide to build my plants, the country will be able to get an
extra 200 million cubic metres of gas a year,” he said.

Ak Party Deputy Comez Says Turkey Ready To Debate Armenian Claims
Turkish Press
June 13 2005
YEREVAN (AA) – Justice and Development Party (AK Party) deputy Turhan
Comez told Armenian deputies and officials on Saturday that Turkey
was ready to debate genocide claims both in historical and in legal
platforms.
Responding to questions of some Armenian deputies about Armenian
claims of ‘genocide,’ Comez explained them the historical realities
and noted that the Armenian claims were baseless.
Reminding of the UN Genocide Convention, Comez said that genocide
meant committing mass massacre with the intention of killing all
members of an ethnic or religious group. Many Muslim Turks were
killed during the uprising of Armenian gangs, said Comez, adding
that the Ottomans adopted the Deportation Law in order to protect
the integrity of the country.
“Citizens (of Armenian origin) living in Izmir and Istanbul were
not asked to migrate. Therefore the decision (of deportation) can’t
be considered within the UN Genocide Convention of 1948. Maximum
security measures were also taken to guarantee the safe deportation
of Armenians showing that Ottomans didn’t have the intention to kill
them,” Comez told Armenian politicians.
“Turkey is right in its point of view historically and legally against
those claims,” he said.
Comez added that the two sides shouldn’t get stuck on the past,
but look for common interests for the future.