The Guardian /Observer, UK
Sept 25 2005
The World in Brief
Conference sparks protest
Hundreds of Turkish nationalists protested yesterday against a
controversial academic conference on the First World War massacre of
Armenians in Ottoman Turkey. The conference had been due to open on
Friday at two universities in Istanbul but a last-minute court order
blocked it, embarrassing the Turkish government just days before the
start of its EU membership talks. The organisers avoided the ban by
moving the conference to a third university in the city.
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