ARMENIAN INTELLECTUALS APPEAL TO GUL FOR GENOCIDE RECOGNITION
Nearly 300 Armenian intellectuals and other public figures have appealed to Turkey to acknowledge that the 1915 mass killings of Armenians in the Ottoman Empire constituted genocide, saying that is a necessary condition for Turkish-Armenian reconciliation, "Azatutyun" radio-station reported.In an open letter to Turkish President Abdullah Gul made public on Tuesday, they said modern-day Turkey bears "hereditary responsibility" for what they consider an "monumental crime against humanity." "Genocide is a crime against humanity and present civilization values, and no individual, organization or even state authority can cast doubt on what happened," the letter said, challenging Ankara's vehement denial of any government policy to exterminate Ottoman Turkey's Armenian population. "Your generation of Turkish leaders must accept the undeniable truth and recognize the fact of the ... Only in that case can there be a sincere dialogue and a process of real reconciliation between our peoples," it said. The letter was apparently initiated by prominent writers, musicians and artists close to Armenia's ruling establishment, suggesting that it was approved by President Serzh Sarkisian. The latter has been instrumental in an unprecedented thaw in Turkish-Armenian relations observed in recent months. Sarkisian has won plaudits in the West for inviting Gul to visit Yerevan and watch with him a September match between Armenia's and Turkey's national soccer teams. The so-called "football diplomacy" was followed by a series of further negotiations between the Turkish and Armenian foreign ministers. It is still not clear, however, whether Ankara is ready to normalize relations with Yerevan before a resolution of the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict.
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- 1901 Start of the Armenian Students' Congress in Riga (Latvia). Stepan Shahoomyan heads the revolutionary social-democrat block at the ten-day meeting.
- 1903 Birth of Goorgen Janibekyan (actor). He died in 1956.
- 1917 The Caucasian Army's Second Assembly opens in Tbilissi. Decisions are taken on Soviet governance in the Caucasus.
- 1920 The Revolutionary Committee of the Armenian SSR nationalizes banks.
- 1922 Opening of the First Council of the Soviet Federative Socialist Republic of the Transcaucasus. The next congresses took place in 1924, 1925, 1927, 1929, 1931, and 1935.
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