TUSIAD PROMOTING INITIATIVE ON CREATING A PLATFORM

TUSAID, the Union of Turkish Entrepreneurs and Manufacturers (Türk Sanayicileri ve İşadamları Deneği), has started a campaign against the international recognition of the Armemian . The organization has made arrangement with American lawyer David Saltzman to prepare a report on H. Resolution 106.
Saltzman's report, entitled "H. RES. 106: Legal and Factual Deficiencies", was published on May 16, during the "The Foundations of the Turkish-American Relationships in the 21st Century" conference, held in Washington. On May 17, according to "Zaman", TUSIAD spread a message giving some details on Saltzman's report.
The message says that the preface for Saltzman's report was written by the TUSIAD executive staff and that the organization is preparing to create a platform for investigating "The Events Concerning the Armenian Citizens of the Ottoman Empire in the period of World War 1". TUSIAD stresses that the controversies about those events and their extremely politicized discussions negatively affect Turkey's relations with its allies and rouse anti-Turkish attitudes in Europe.
The preface of the report says that the public opinion on those events is formed with a one-sided point of view. "Due to partial appraisal of the facts, due to neglecting the counter-arguments and the historical platform of those events, the present approaches are enduring," it is said.
The body text of the report says that it has been never legally approved that there are reasons to qualify the events of 1915 as . It says that the materials on Armenians' deportation, on the violence occurred during the deportation, on Armenians' rebellions and on other factors of reduction of Armenian population in Turkey are open public research. TUSIAD assures that impartial and open investigation of those issues is threatened by exceedingly politicized attitudes and that in such conditions determination of the historical truth and normalization of Armenia-Turkey relations are impossible.
By H. Chaqrian, translated by A.M.

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