ASIA/TURKEY - Advisor of the Turkish prime minister who had spoken of the Armenian Genocide has resigned

Monday, 20 April 2015

Ankara (Agenzia Fides) - The writer and journalist of Turkish Armenian origin Etyen Mahcupyan, former advisor of Turkish Prime Minister Ahmet Davutlogu, resigned a few days after releasing some statements in an interview in which he had recognized that the massacres of Armenians perpetrated in Anatolia in 1915 under the direction of the ideological Young Turks may legitimately be defined as genocide. This was reported by Turkish sources consulted by Agenzia Fides.
Sources close to the government in Ankara in recent days gave their interpretation that the end of the working relationship between the Premier and his first Adviser is due only to the fact that Mahcupyan has reached retirement age, denying any link between his non announced retirement and statements on the Armenian Genocide.
Meanwhile, as reported by the Armenian bilingual weekly Agos, the conference on the controversial issue of the Armenian Genocide, which was announced and then canceled at the University of Bilgi, will instead be hosted by Bogazici University, the third academic institution in Istanbul, located on the European side of the Bosphorus. In the international conference, scholars and researchers belonging to Turkish and foreign institutions will discuss different perspectives with which exterminations carried out in Anatolia in 1915 are interpreted. (GV) (Agenzia Fides 20/04/2015)


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