GENOCIDE CONFERENCE IN ANKARA CANCELLED

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TURKIYE DERIN KIS UYKUSUNDAN UYANMA ISARETLERI GOSTERMEYE BASLADI

.. TURKISH FORUM

Armenian Weekly Staff
Thu, Apr 22 2010

ANKARA, Turkey (A.W.)-A symposium on the Armenian Genocide titled “1915
Within Its Pre- and Post-Historical Periods: Denial and Confrontation,


which was to be held in Ankara, was cancelled on April 21 after facing
political and bureaucratic hurdles.

Organized by the Ankara Freedom to Thought Initiative (AFTI), the
symposium was not only going to address history, but explore issues
like the confiscation of Armenian property and reparations.

Confirmed participants included Ragip Zarakolu (publisher), Recep
Marasli (author of The Armenian National Democratic Movement and 1915
Genocide), Sait Cetinoglu (activist and writer), David Gaunt (genocide
scholar, author of Massacres, Resistance, Protectors: Muslim-Christian
Relations in Eastern Anatolia During World War I), Henry Theriault
(professor of philosophy, Worcester State University), Baskin Oran
(author, professor of political science at Ankara University; one of
the initiators of the apology campaign of Turkish intellectuals),
and Khatchig Mouradian (doctoral student in Holocaust and genocide
studies, Clark University; editor, the Armenian Weekly).

Theriault and Mouradian were scheduled to speak about Genocide
recognition and reparations.


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3 responses to “GENOCIDE CONFERENCE IN ANKARA CANCELLED”

  1. tulay Avatar
    tulay

    Henry Theriault: Perhaps the taste of not being allowed to speak may make him to think twice before advocating no freedom of speech to the “deniers of genocide”. He was giving advice how to silence the academia who were telling that there was no genocide. Perhaps somebody in Turkey let the Turks know who this man is.

  2. Does not matter Avatar
    Does not matter

    It is not enough to cancel the event. All these names must be sent to jail! Life sentence! Traitors among the nation are worse than Armenians themselves.

  3. H Sinasi Avatar
    H Sinasi

    Unless the Foreign Ministry in Turkey takes steps to organise the Turkish Diaspora abroad and help establish SUPER TEAMS on how to promote the Turkish side of the so called Armenian Genocide, Turkey can not expect to win the ‘hearts&minds’ against the Public at large and even the Armenian Diaspora. Foreign Minister Davutoglu said the right things when he wanted the Turkish Ambassadors and Consul Generals to go out and meet all sorts of people, including Armenians.

    Unless SUPER TEAMS are set up and Turkish Embassies become a hive of activity against the Armenians there can be no prospect of disseminating the Turkish side of the story for consumption by the Western public opinion!

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