| Talat speaks against the genocide resolution |
[Oct. 15th, 2007|06:46 pm] |
In 1915 Mehmet Talat Pasha was on the very top of the Turkish state genocidal hiearchy. Now some Mehmet Talat speaks against recognizing the crimes committed by his historical «twin».
TALAT HEADS TO NEW YORK FOR TALKS WITH BAN
Today's Zaman, Turkey
Oct 15 2007
Turkish Cypriot President Mehmet Ali Talat departed on Sunday from İstanbul for New York, where he will have talks with UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon on Tuesday and urge the secretary-general to be more active on the Cyprus issue.
Speaking to reporters upon his departure, Talat touched upon the controversy over the US House's adoption of a resolution labeling the mass killings of Anatolian Armenians during World War I as genocide.
"This resolution is both strange and a little funny; because it is unbelievable that an assembly of another country is making a decision concerning incidents -- after around 100 years passed -- over which history should make a decision," Talat told reporters, noting that he did not have any meetings scheduled with US officials when asked whether he would bring up the issue during his meetings in New York.( Read more... )
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