TURKEY TRIES TO HAMPER OPENING ARMENIAN GENOCIDE MUSEUM IN OSLO

PanARMENIAN.Net - One of Oslo-based private companies has set about the founding of a Genocide Museum, where a section will be devoted to the Armenian Genocide. According to the Yerkir newspaper referring to the Haratch Paris newspaper, Ankara is already taking steps not to allow the exposition on the tragic events of 1915. Thereupon Norwegian Deputy FM Kim Traavik noted the museum is founded by a private company, thus the Government does not have a right to interfere. History professor of Berken University O. P. Furie is one of the co-sponsors of the museum. The opening is scheduled August 30, when Turkey marks the Victory Day - the liberation of the country from «enemies.» Turkish FM Abdullah Gul stated at a meeting with Kim Traavik that the availability of sections devoted to the Holocaust and the Armenian Genocide in the same museum is «insulting the Turkish people.» «We expect this to be banned,» Gul added.