PARIS AMBASSDOR RECALLED
Milliyet
Anatolian Times, Turkey
May 10 2006
Press Review
Turkey which had recalled its ambassador in 2001 for 6 months as a
reaction against the approach of the France toward so-called Armenian
genocide, this time recalled Paris Ambassador Osman Koruturk for
consultations.
Before Koruturk, Aydemir Erman, Turkey’s Ambassador in Ottawa
was recalled to Ankara as Canadian Government used the expression
“genocide” on April 24th.
From: Emil Lazarian | Ararat NewsPress

ARINC: TURKEY WILL NEVER RECOGNIZE SO-CALLED ARMENIAN GENOCIDE BECAUSE SUCH A THING HAS NOT HAPPENED IN OUR HISTORY
Anatolian Times, Turkey
May 10 2006
STOCKHOLM – “Turkey will never recognize so-called Armenian genocide
because such a thing has not happened in our history,” Turkish
Parliament Speaker Bulent Arinc said on Tuesday.
Arinc, who is currently paying a state visit to Sweden, responded to
questions of Swedish MPs at the parliament.
Upon a question about so-called Armenian genocide, Arinc said, “this
issue has been discussed for a long time. It is a fact that tragic
events happened during the World War I. However, there is not any
court verdict that Turks committed genocide against Armenians. Also
Turks, Arabs and Kurds died during the World War I. Therefore, it is
a serious mistake to say that only Armenians were subject to genocide.”
“Armenians had always lived freely during the Ottoman Empire era.
Last year, we proposed Armenia to set a joint independent commission
of historians to research the issue. However, Armenia turned down
Turkey’s proposal. On the other hand, Turkey’s archives are kept open
for researchers,” he stressed.
When asked whether Turkish people were ready for EU membership,
Arinc said, “Turkish people have always wanted to become a member
of the EU. Although Turkey has fulfilled the necessary criteria,
the EU asked Turkey to fulfill additional criteria. We do not want
any privileges, the EU should not discriminate Turkey. Turkish people
regret such humiliation and discrimination.”
“The EU is a 40-year process for Turkey. Our relations with the EU
are based on international agreements and mutual interests,” he said.
Replying to another question, Arinc said, “Turkey is a secular and
democratic state. Our citizens worship freely.”

TURKEY PULLS OUT OF CANADIAN MILITARY EXERCISEPROTESTING PRIME MINISTER’S COMMENTS
By CP
Edmonton Sun, Canada
May 10 2006
TORONTO – The Turkish government has pulled out of an international
military air exercise in Canada to protest Prime Minister Stephen
Harper’s characterization of a mass killing of Armenians as a genocide,
the Globe and Mail reports.
Officials with the Turkish embassy confirmed Tuesday that a half-dozen
Turkish jet fighters and support aircraft, which were supposed to
take part in the exercise May 17 to June 24 at Canadian Forces Base
Cold Lake in Alberta, have been withdrawn.
The move comes after the Turkish ambassador to Canada, Aydemir Erman,
was recalled to Ankara for discussions on the situation.
When asked whether the decision to withdraw from the military exercise
stemmed from Harper’s comments, an official said, “I think one can
draw that conclusion at this point.”
“This seems to be related to the not-so-good period of relations we
are going through.”
Turkey’s anger comes from Harper’s recognition last month, on behalf
of the federal government, that Armenians had suffered a genocide at
the hands of Turkey during and after the First World War.
The issue is highly controversial in Turkey, where the government
says the deaths were caused by the war and civil strife.
A spokesman for Defence Minister Gordon O’Connor said the Turks
cancelled their participation on Friday.
“This is a Turkish decision,” said communications director Etienne
Allard.
“Exercise Maple Flag is a major training exercise which brings great
benefits to all participants. Turkey is an important NATO ally and
we hope that they will be able to participate in future exercises.”
The military exercises will involve about 40 aircraft and pilots from
nine countries – Canada, Germany, France, Britain, the Netherlands,
Sweden, the United States, New Zealand and Singapore.
From: Emil Lazarian | Ararat NewsPress

TURKEY WISHES FRANCE NOT TO APPROVE DRAFT LAW, TAN
Anatolian Times, Turkey
May 10 2006
ANKARA – “Turkey wishes the French legislators not to approve a draft
law which would make ‘the denial’ of the so-called Armenian genocide a
crime,” Turkish Foreign Ministry Spokesman Namik Tan said on Wednesday.
Responding to a question at a weekly news conference, Tan said French
administration was sensitive on this issue, stating that the issue
required a process in which calm reactions should be given.
“It should not be the desire of anybody to cause uneasiness in
a climate in which our rooted relations were being improved,”
he remarked.
-TURKEY’S REACTION TO CANADA-
Asked about Turkey’s reaction against the remarks of Canadian Prime
Minister Stephen Harper describing baseless Armenian allegations
as “genocide”, Tan said, “there has been assessment process in our
ministry to determine the steps that would be taken on this issue. We
carry out necessary consultations with other related institutions.”

HABITAT FOR HUMANITY WINS AT THE WORLD BANK DEVELOPMENT MARKETPLACE
Source: Habitat for Humanity International
Reuters, UK
May 10 2006
BUDAPEST, Hungary (May 10) ? Habitat for Humanity Kyrgyzstan?s
innovative Cane Reed project is one of the thirty winners at
the prestigious World Bank Development Marketplace competition
in Washington DC. The winners were announced Tuesday and Nurlan
Moldosherip and Natalie Grant of Habitat for Humanity received the
award from World Bank President Paul Wolfowitz.
Habitat had two programs at ?Innovations in Water, Sanitation and
Energy Services for Poor People? this week at the World Bank HQs in
Washington, D.C. Habitat is among 118 finalists, chosen from 2,500
applicants from 55 countries worldwide.
Habitat qualified for Armenia?s ?Harnessing the Sun: Energy for the
Armenian Poor?; and for Kyrgyzstan?s ?Cane Reed: 19th Century Idea,
21st Century Solution?. Habitat Kyrgyzstan will now receive US$116,389
from the World Bank to further fund the project.
?To place in this prestigious competition is quite an achievement for
these local initiatives, and for Kyrgzstan to win is fantastic. The
Armenian and Kyrgyz leadership and innovation of these sustainable,
innovative projects can only enhance our mission to provide simple,
decent, affordable homes for families in need,? said Don Haszczyn,
Area Vice President for Habitat for Humanity?s Europe and Central
Asia Regional Office.
In Kyrgyzstan, where 70% of the population lives in poverty,
innovative solutions to poverty housing are needed, so Habitat has
combed the past, and harnessed the cane reed and clay technology used
in the 19th century but forgotten in the 20th. These environmentally
friendly materials keep house costs down 40%, and also serve as better
insulators against harsh Kyrgyz winters. Habitat has coupled this
technology with an underfloor heating system, which keeps heating
costs down further, saving a family $60 per month in energy costs:
that equates to 490 loaves of bread, or 20 kilos of meat, or 160
liters of milk.
In Armenia, where 45% of the population lives in poverty, oftentimes,
unhealthy and dangerous forms of water heating are used, which can
lead to illness, indoor pollution and illness, accidents and fire. To
address these issues, Habitat for Humanity has harnessed the power
of Armenia?s average of 300 sunny days per year, and teamed up with
a local company to install solar panels for water heating. There is
potential to scale this project to 10,000 homes. Solar energy saves
a family approximately $252 per year, which could buy: 740 loaves of
bread, 222 kilos of tomatoes, or 55.5 kilos of meat.
Since being established in 1999, Habitat for Humanity Kyrgyzstan
has dedicated more than 130 homes for families in need. Habitat for
Humanity Armenia has housed more than 1,000 people in need since 2000.
[ Any views expressed in this article are those of the writer and
not of Reuters. ]

GOVT OFFICIAL TO FLY TO SOCHI TO OVERSEE PLANE CRASH PROBE
ITAR-TASS, Russia
May 10 2006
MOSCOW, May 10 (Itar-Tass) –The head of Russia’s Federal Agency for
Sea and River Transport, Alexander Davydenko, will fly to the Black
Sea resort city of Sochi on Wednesday to “supervise the operation to
determine the exact location of the crashed plane,” Transport Minister
Igor Levitin said.
“The plan of further steps will be approved by specialists together
with the Emergencies Ministry, the Navy, and French colleagues,”
the minister said.
“Work will begin according to the approved schedule,” Levitin said,
adding that all the necessary equipment has already been delivered.
Meanwhile, the search for the flight recorders from the crashed
Armenian Airbus-320 in the Black Sea off Sochi has not stopped despite
rough seas.
Specialists plan to examine the seabed at a death of 450-800 metres
where a large number of the plane’s fragments and the “black boxes”
are lying.
The area where the debris are scattered is quite big and the French
equipment will help to distinguish between the plane’s fragments and
personal belongings of the passengers.
Earlier, a deep-water apparatus, Kalmar, traced four unidentified
objects at the crash scene at the depth of 450 meters.
“Four objects have been traced at the depth of 450 meters. They are
being identified. The objects were found by a hydro-radar system
of the Kalmar apparatus operated from the Zaliv towboat,” Sergei
Biryukov, Executive Director of the company Tetis Pro that designed
the apparatus, told Itar-Tass.
Flight recorders used on aircraft of the Airbus-320 type withstand
the depth of up to 6,000 meters for 30 days, experts from the French
air crash investigation bureau said on Sunday.
They said that flight recorders’ radio beacons keep working during
the 30-day period.
One of the flight recorders registers flight parameters, including the
speed, height and direction of the flight and the autopilot operation,
each second. The other gadget records conversations in the cockpit.
Each flight recorder weighs 10 kilograms, including a seven-kilogram
armoured casing for the gadget. The casing can withstand water pressure
at a depth of 6,000 meters, the temperature of 1,100 degrees Celsius,
and the compression of 2.2 tonnes.
The French experts think that flight recorders from the Armenian
Airbus-320 are lying at a depth of 680 meters.
The bureau retrieved flight recorders from the depth of over 1,000
meters in the Red Sea in January 2004, when an Egyptian plane crashed
near the Sharm-el-Sheikh resort. The rescuers were using a Scorpio
deep-water apparatus.
A technical commission investigating the Sochi air crash, which is
led by the CIS Interstate Aviation Committee, has asked French experts
to help find A-320 flight recorders.
Russian Transport Minister Igor Levitin said, “The Frenchmen have
appropriate equipment and they are ready to quickly bring it to the
crash scene.”
Of 113 people who were abroad the plane, 51 bodies have been found
so far. On the fifth day after the crash, specialists say chances
that the others will be found are quite small.
The Airbus A-320 of the Armenian airline Armavia plunged into the
Black Sea as it was making a landing manoeuvre in the early hours of
May 3. The accident claimed the lives of 113 people.

GENOCIDE BILL AT FRENCH CONSTITUTIONAL COMMISSION
By Ali Ihsan Aydin, Paris
Zaman, Turkey
May 10 2006
The controversial bid to penalize those who deny the so-called genocide
in France will be discussed at the French National Parliament’s
Constitutional Commission today.
The motion, expected to be discussed at the National Parliament on
May 18, needs to be approved by the Senate as well to become a law.
If the motion passes, those denying the existence of the so-called
genocide may be fined 45,000 euros and sentenced to one-year in
prison. The French Foreign Ministry in a statement yesterday said
“they are following the developments carefully” concerning Turkey’s
reaction. The bill prepared by the main opposition Socialist Party
(SP) needs to pass the commission in order to reach the parliament.
Last month, the SP decided to bring the bill to the parliament by
using its “right to determine agenda” given to French parties in
proportion to the number of deputies. Five other bills prepared by
parliamentarians from the ruling Union for a Popular Movement (UMP) and
the SP in this frame were unable to be included on the parliamentary
agenda since 2001. The right to determine the agenda, which normally
belongs to the government, will be invoked by the SP on May 18.
A Turkish split in the SP
Jean Marc Ayrault, the Socialists’ house leader, that party that
prepared the bill, does not hide his concern about the draft.
Ayrault, warning that the bill will be a “source of chaos and
difficulty,” stresses the offer came to the agenda as “a result of
big pressure from the party.”
The left-leaning newspaper Liberation wrote that the bill deepened
the crisis between France and Turkey.
Liberation estimates Ankara harshly reacted to the proposed law when
it recalled Ambassador to France Osman Koruturk “to discuss the issue,”
and “is getting harsher against France.”
The article cites the boycotting of French goods and excluding of
French companies from public tenders came to the agenda in Turkey,
and those who criticize the bill, mostly Turkish intellectuals such
as Baskin Oran, are struggling against official history. Marc Semo,
the newspaper’s expert on Turkey who wrote the article, maintains that
although the majority of historians accept it, Ankara still rejects
the so-called genocide. In the event the bill passes, Turkish-French
relationships, which almost stopped in 2001 due to the Armenian issue,
are again expected to undergo a second crisis.

BACK HOME AGAIN
by Sara Khojoyan
Transitions Online, Czech Republic
May 10 2006
Children’s centers are replacing orphanages and institutions in
Armenia, and helping to get children back in the classroom.
GYUMRI, Armenia | Every day a sister and brother walk through the
bustle of reconstruction in Gyumri, the main city in Armenia’s
northwestern Shirak region, the poorest in Armenia with a poverty
rate of nearly 50 percent.
After school, 15-year-old Parandzem and 10-year-old Levon come to
town from the nearby village of Akhourian and head to the Center for
Community Development and Social Support to do their homework, draw,
or watch television.
Like most children, Levon plays, runs around, or even brags about
the progress he’s making in his lessons. Seeing how diligently this
cheerful little boy does his homework, it’s difficult to believe that
he would never have gone to school but for this center.
“Levon used to go begging. … His father wouldn’t let him attend
school. Our psychologist worked with the father for two months. After
a lot of effort we finally managed to persuade him,” says Geghanush
Gyunashyan, the center’s director. “When Levon came out dressed in
his tidy school uniform to go to school for the first time, his father
got very emotional.”
Photo by Sergey Fidanyan
At the age of 12, Parandzem started school with her brother. “Levon and
I are in the fourth grade now. Studying with the little kids doesn’t
bother me; instead, I can read and write now,” she says proudly.
There are five children in their family, but only Parandzem and Levon
are old enough for school. “They helped two of my children to go to
school, at least, and that’s good,” their mother, Alisa Grigoryan,
says gratefully.
The Center for Community Development and Social Support in Gyumri,
founded by UNICEF in 2001, has already helped 150 children considered
“high risk,” with 45 of them currently under the center’s care.
Gyumri, a major industrial city of more than 200,000 people in
Soviet times, was heavily damaged by the December 1988 earthquake
that killed an estimated 25,000 people. Scars from the earthquake are
evident today despite international aid for reconstruction. Efforts
to rebuild the economy and provide jobs and opportunity have been slow.
“A family’s extreme poverty, parents’ unemployment, a child not
attending school, begging – all these are criteria for being listed
in the high-risk group,” Gyunashyan says. Today in Armenia, there are
about 1,300 children in state and private orphanages, although about
60 percent are not orphans. In addition, more than 10,000 children
attend special schools, about 40 percent of whom are boarders.
“For a country as small as Armenia, the number of children in
orphanages is very big,” says Naira Avetisyan, manager of UNICEF’s
Children’s Rights Protection Project in Armenia. “And for a long time,
the government, instead of helping poor families so that they wouldn’t
send their children to orphanages, encouraged such institutions.”
Government policy has changed, but parents still need more options.
“Parents prefer taking their children to orphanages because conditions
are better there than in their own homes. We tried to find an
alternative,” Avetisyan says.
That’s where the community centers come in.
BABY STEPS
UNICEF supports nine such centers in Armenia, addressing slightly
different needs.
In Vanadzor and Alaverdi, in the north, the centers help children who,
for various reasons, are not in school and who have family problems,
such as parents who do not pay attention to their children’s studies
or keep track of their school attendance.
Four centers operate in the northeast region of Tavush – in Berd,
Ijevan, Dilijan, and Noyemberyan. The one in Dilijan is among the first
centers founded by UNICEF, in 2002. There, disabled children have an
opportunity to socialize with their peers who do not have disabilities.
“If a child hasn’t started school at the correct age, they do their
best in the center to help him overcome that psychological barrier. A
child is provided with elementary knowledge as well as skills to help
him eventually enter school. Younger children receive help with getting
ready for school because there is no preschool institution for children
with disabilities. This way it’s easier to start attending school,”
Avetisyan says.
The Tavush centers offer physical and psychological therapy, and
social and legal aid to disabled children as well as disability
pension registration. And, most importantly, it tries to integrate
disabled children into society at an early age and raise awareness
of the problems that disabled children face.
With UNICEF’s support, centers were opened in 2005 in the southern town
of Masis and in the Avan community in the capital city of Yerevan. In
Masis most children in the center have serious disabilities and were
not given the opportunity to attend school.
They are taught skills, such as weaving or embroidery, that might help
them contribute eventually to their families’ incomes. The center in
Avan houses younger children with disabilities, mainly ages 3 to 6.
“These are not called day-care centers because many people associate
those with care only. The centers encourage the idea of a child staying
with his or her family. At the same time parents are provided with
basic instructions on upbringing, care, and rights,” Avetisyan says.
A GROWING NEED …
After the earthquake of 1988, the number of at-risk children rose
considerably, according to Diana Martirosova, a specialist at the
National Statistics Service. “Today it’s children who suffer from
poverty most,” she says.
Back in Gyumri, one of those children is green-eyed Hovhannes, who
writes a greeting card to his late mother. “Dear Mother, I want you
to be happy. I hope that you never get sick or leave me alone: In a
word, I congratulate you on 8 March,” International Women’s Day.
Hovhannes’ father left the family when his mother was still alive.
After she died, his only caregivers were a grandmother and the
center’s workers.
“I like drawing most,” Hovhannes says. He draws what he misses in real
life – a fairytale, three-story castle, painted in red and orange,
with open windows. A spruce stands next to the castle, with the two
peaks of Mt. Ararat, Sis and Masis, in the background.
Sometimes it’s the parents who must be helped before the children
can be. Fair-haired Gohar is in the second grade, though she should
be in the third: Her mother kept her out of school for a year so she
could beg. It took the center’s workers a year to convince the mother
to let Gohar attend school. The center helped her mother register
for her state allowance and find seasonal employment, and Gohar was
sent to school. “Today Gohar reads a lesson right after the teacher,”
says Gayane Sahakyan, a social worker at the center.
Apart from doing lessons and drawing, children here learn to weave
tapestries and work with computers.
Artyom is an Adobe Photoshop fan and has combined a photo of himself
with those of his favorite car and his favorite actress, Angelina
Jolie. He was taught the skills by a student volunteer from the Gyumri
campus of the Yerevan State Academy of Arts.
“We have 15 to 20 volunteers, as a rule,” says director Gyunashyan.
“But we have fewer paid employees: two psychologists, two sociologists,
two tutors, a doctor, and a lawyer.”
Artavazd has been in the center since the summer of 2005. He quickly
became one of the best pupils in the weaving club and a favorite of
Marine Avetisyan, the teacher.
“It’s especially boys who like weaving,” Avetisyan says. “We weave
three days a week, four hours every time. The purpose, however,
is not to make them masters but merely to distract them, make them
forget their family’s concerns, as well as those put on their weak
little shoulders.”
The center’s administrators have worries of their own. Gyunashyan’s
first concern is the lack of a permanent home. “We’ve been renting
this damp two-story house for $800 a month. It would be great to get
some support for building a new house for the center,” she says.
Food is another concern. The center gets only 150 drams (U.S. 34 cents)
to feed each child per day. “We’re thankful to the German Red Cross,
who allocates that money, but it’s way too little,” she says.
UNICEF’s Naira Avetisyan says, “Such centers are highly effective. In
the Tavush region, for example, where the centers provide services
to disabled children and encourage them to live at home, very few
children are sent to orphanages. The same is true in Gyumri: If it
hadn’t been for the center, most [of the] children would have been
in orphanages a long time ago.”
Gyunashyan estimates that her center is 60 percent to 70 percent
effective; only four children have been sent to orphanages in the
past four years. “But we’ve managed to withdraw Andranik from there,
and taken little Siranoush’s case to court,” she says, recounting
the stories of these four children one by one.
… AN AMBITIOUS PLAN
What UNICEF has started, the Armenian government plans to expand,
with 25 such centers slated to open in the next 10 years, according
to Avetisyan.
Filaret Berikyan, Armenia’s deputy minister of labor and social
affairs, says serious reforms are under way in the area of children’s
rights and the government is anxious to redirect needy children from
orphanages and institutions into community centers and foster families.
“Unlike in the times of the Soviet Union, when orphanages and other
similar institutions were built for these children, now [the solutions]
are family-based. Human history has proven that the best place for
children to grow up is with their family,” Berikyan says.
The first two government centers are being established under a pilot
program of reform in children’s care supported by Japan’s Social
Development Fund.
One of the centers, in the Ajapnyak district of Yerevan, opened in
November while still under construction. Through March, staff there
compiled a database of more than 300 children who fall into the
high-risk category.
“We’ve been working with the first hundred children on the list,”
says center director Seda Ghaltaghchyan.
As in UNICEF’S Gyumri center, here a team consisting of a social
worker, a psychologist, a tutor, and a doctor and lawyer, if necessary,
works with each child. The center has 20 employees and is guided by
a governing council that meets monthly.
“We make headway every month and children are removed from the
high-risk list. Sometimes 19 children of the 100 are withdrawn,
sometimes 20 are, and sometimes none are. We keep updating the list,”
Ghaltaghchyan says.
The state budget allocates 500 drams for a child’s food each day,
and 2,100 for other expenses. The center gets around 8 million drams
a month, or $18,000.
The center in Gyumri, which performs more functions than that in
Ajapnyak, gets about $15,000 to $20,000 a month, Avetisyan says.
The second state-financed center will also be in Gyumri, where
construction is almost complete. A director will be chosen at the
end of May and the center will open in June.
Seeing Hovhannes and Gohar on their way to school in the morning,
few would suspect that these two children, neatly dressed in black
and white, are in the high-risk group. With help of the day-care
center in Gyumri, today they are pupils instead of beggars.
Sara Khojoyan is working on her master’s degree in journalism at
Yerevan State University. She also works as a reporting intern for
the ArmeniaNow online newspaper.
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From: Emil Lazarian | Ararat NewsPress

YURI MERZLYAKOV: “IT IS THE MOST SUITABLE TIME TO SETTLE KARABAKH CONFLICT”
Today, Azerbaijan
May 10 2006
“The current situation on the settlement of the Nagorno Karabakh
conflict is promising and bears responsibility,” said OSCE Minsk
Group Russian co-chair Yuri Merzlyakov.
The Russian co-chair told APA exclusively that it is the most suitable
time to reach an agreement and this chance cannot be underestimated.
“I do not think there will a better chance again,” Mr.Merzlyakov said.
The co-chair did not say what are new proposals the co-chairs offered
to the conflicting sides. However, he said there are a number of new
opinions related to some details discussed in the framework of the
Prague process.
The Russian co-chair also said that the Minsk Group co-chairs are
not expected to visit the region by the meeting of Azerbaijani and
Armenian Foreign Ministers Elmar Mammadyarov and Vardan Oskanyan in
Strasbourg in the framework of the Council of Europe event on May
18-19. He did give a specific answer to the question on the date of
the meeting between Azerbaijani and Armenian Presidents.
“Let’s organize the meeting of Foreign Ministers first and they
exchange views and then organize the meeting of Presidents if the
Ministers consider it necessary,” Merzlyakov said.
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TURKEY URGES FRANCE NOT TO APPROVE DRAFT LAW OVER ARMENIAN GENOCIDE
CRI, China
May 10 2006
Turkey has urged French legislators not to approve a draft law
criminalizing denial of Armenian genocide, Foreign Ministry spokesman
Namik Tan said on Wednesday.
“It should not be the desire of anybody to cause uneasiness in a
climate in which our rooted relations were being improved,” Tan told
a weekly news conference.
The French parliament is expected to vote on a bill regarding Armenian
genocide on May 18.
If approved, the bill would provide one year in prison and a fine
of 57,000 U.S. dollars for any person who denies that the 1915-1917
massacres of Armenians were genocide.
On Monday, the Turkish Foreign Ministry recalled its ambassador to
France “for a short time” to have consultations on recent discussions
over the issue in the country.
The spokesman said that the French administration was sensitive on
this issue, stating that the issue required a process in which calm
reactions should be given.
Meanwhile, Turkey warns that ties with France could suffer if the
French parliament adopts the bill.
Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan on Tuesday held a meeting
with a group of senior directors of French companies doing business
in Turkey, saying that he hoped the group could lobby against the
bill to be voted in the French parliament.
Turkey has rejected claims that 1.5 million Armenians died as a result
of systematic genocide during the Ottoman Empire last century.
The Turkish government has been calling for the formation of a joint
research commission of Turkish and Armenian historians to find out
the truth of the history.