Turkey: Genocide conference postponed

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[Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA]
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Published May 27, 2005
Turkey: Genocide conference postponed
Three Turkish universities have postponed a conference to discuss last
century’s mass killings of Armenians by Ottoman Turks after the justice
minister accused organizers of treachery. The three-day conference was
scheduled to start Wednesday at Istanbul’s Bosporus University. A
University of Minnesota visiting associate professor of history, Taner
Akçam, was one of the conference organizers. Armenians say Ottoman Turks
killed 1.5 million of their people in a campaign of genocide between
1915 and 1923. Turkey says the death count is inflated and insists
Armenians were killed or displaced in civil unrest.
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“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