April 29, 2003 - 22:55 AMT
TURKS HELD PROTEST ACTION NEXT TO MONUMENT TO ARMENIAN COMPOSER KOMITAS IN PARIS
Yesterday representatives of the Working Party of Turkey held a protest meeting near the monument to Komitas Armenian composer opened recently in the center of Paris and symbolizing the memory of the victims of the Armenian Genocide in 1915. As reported by "Milliet" Turkish newspaper, "Arminfo" agency reports, the action organizers made a statement calling all those willing to study history to make use of the materials of Turkish or "Soviet" archives evidencing that "early in the 20-th century England, France and the Czarist Russia instigated Armenians in order to break up the Ottoman Turkey." "Armenian separatists committed a massacre, the Ottomans responded in the same way, and both peoples suffered losses resulting from external interference," - the statement of representatives of the Working Party of Turkey says.