Turk historian to investigate massacres with Armenians?
Kathimerini, Greece
March 17 2006
ISTANBUL (AFP) – The leading Turkish historian who contests the
definition of controversial World War I massacres of Armenians
as genocide, yesterday proposed carrying out joint research with
an Armenian on the issue. “Let’s carry out a project together,
dig up common graves if there are some, to put an end to numerous
demagogical arguments,” said Yusuf Halacoglu, president of the Turkish
History Society, to Ara Sarafian, a British historian of Armenian
origin. Sarafian, a researcher at the Gomidas Institute in London,
England, told AFP that he was interested in accepting the offer. “I
will definitely consider this offer. I don’t want to show skepticism
about this proposal,” he said.
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