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ANKARA (DİHA) – Sociologist Ismail Besikci said that the archives about Armenian Genocide were destroyed by authorities.
Ankara Freedom of Thought Initiative organized a symposium titled ‘Before and After Hrant, Confrontation and Negation of 1915’ in Ankara. Sociologist Ismail Besikci who spoke at the symposium said that the archives about Armenian Genocide were destroyed by authorities.
Besikci added that the researchers, lecturers or journalists cannot find anything about Armenian genocide since archives were removed by the representatives of official policy.
“The same approach is still effective in Turkish political environment. I alleged that you might not find any document in 2080 about extrajudicial killings occurred in 1990’s.”
Europe Assyrian Union president Tuma Çelik was also speaker at the symposium. Çelik emphasized the understanding of ‘tolerance’; “”Ottoman and Turkey has great toleration for other ethnicities” This is kind of pronunciation about Ottoman or Turkey’s approach for different ethnic identities. I do not agree even it is right since we do not need tolerance for being different. Being Assyrian is not a crime or being different is not a crime and that is why we do not need tolerance.”
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