PARLIAMENT OF TURKEY TO GIVE LEGISLATORS BOOKLETS IN WHICH ARMENIAN GENOCIDE IS DISPROVED
Noyan Tapan
Armenians Today
Mar 01 2007
ANKARA, MARCH 1, NOYAN TAPAN – ARMENIANS TODAY. The Grand National
Assembly of Turkey published booklets and books which will be given
to 550 American legislators to prevent discussion of the resolution
concerning the Armenian Genocide recognition at the U.S. Congress
House of Representatives and to propagate official position of Ankara
in that issue.
The second delegation of the Turkish Parliament leaving for Washington
on March 11 will undertake that "mission." The first delegation left
on February 26.
The booklets were published in the English, French, German, Turkish
and Italian languages. Those will be sent to parliaments of other
countries as well.
The booklets and books were published under the control of Egemen
Bagis, the Chairman of the Turkish-American Parliamentary Friendship
Group as well as of Aziz Akgul, the deputy of the Justice and
Development Party ruling in Turkey elected from Diyarbakir. They got
the documents "disproving" the genocide from the History Institute
of Turkey.
As the Turkish "Zaman" daily states, the first 4 pages of the booklet
tell about "events" of 1915-1918, and 14 pages "prove" as if those
"events" may not be qualified as a genocide.
Bagis expressed confidence that the U.S. Congress will not accept
that resolution: "I do not think that the United States will make
such a great mistake.
The U.S. will not be caught in the Armenian Diaspora’s trap."