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Dr. Şükrü M. Elekdağ Bence, Başbakan Erdoğan tarafından “Ermeni sorunu” hakkında 23 Nisan’da yapılan açıklama akılcı, insani, barışçı ve uzlaşıcı bir yaklaşımı içeriyor. Aynı zamanda, Türkiye’nin gerçeklerden kaçmadığını ve tarihiyle yüzleşmekten korkmadığını ortaya koyuyor.  Açıklamadaki “Ö 20. Yüzyılın başındaki koşullarda hayatlarını kaybeden Ermenilerin huzur içinde yatmalarını diliyor, torunlarına taziyetlerimizi iletiyoruz. Aynı dönemde  benzer koşullarda yaşamını yitiren, [...]

By Ambassador (Ret.) Şükrü M. Elekdağ Former Member of Parliament,  Republican People’s Party (CHP) İstanbul December 22, 2008 - Architects of the recent apology campaign declared that their underlying purpose was not to charge Turkey with genocide, nor did they use this term in the actual wording of the statement.  Apparently, they intended to reflect on [...]

Below are 27 attacks against Turkish diplomats by Armenian terrorists during 1980s. These events have been divided into four categories: The first are instances in which a Turkish diplomat was killed and the perpetrators were arrested, tried and convicted. The second category describes instances in which convictions were secured against perpetrators of attempted murders of Turkish [...]

In 1920 Izmir was given up to the Greeks by the Ottomans as part of a Peace agreement proposed by Churchill. Although intended as an allied occupation under the armistice terms, it was in fact a Greek occupation which quickly became an excuse to extend the boundaries of Greece across the Aegean in accordance with the [...]

By Maxime Gauin Turkish Weekly, September 6, 2011 The congress of the Armenian Revolutionary Federation of 1972, organized in Vienna, Austria, decided the return to terrorist methods and the creation of a terrorist branch, the so-called “Justice Commandos Against Armenian Terrorism,” later renamed the “Armenian Revolutionary Army.” Among the main targets of the JCAG/ARA were Turkish [...]

On this eleventh day of October in the year of 1989, there appeared before me, a notary public duly commissioned by the State of California, Albert J. Amateau, known to me. In my presence the said Albert J. Amateau duly took the required oath and affixed his signature to this instrument as well as to every [...]

Israeli Foreign Minister Shimon Peres has said that claims of an Armenian Genocide are "meaningless," according to the April 10th edition of the Turkish Daily News (TDN). The newspaper quoted him as saying that: "We reject attempts to create a similarity between the Holocaust and the Armenian allegations. Nothing similar to the Holocaust occurred. It is [...]