Word: berktay
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...those scholars undertaking the sensitive task of looking into the events of 1915, the solemn declarations of foreign parliaments are anything but welcome. Halil Berktay, professor at Istanbul's Sabanci University describes the French Parliament as being "incredibly stupid" by simply fuelling intolerance on both sides. The action, Berktay believes, has strangled a growing dialogue between historians in Turkey and abroad. He himself speaks from painful experience after having been the target of what he describes as a McCarthyite witch-hunt after an interview in which he expressed the "open secret" that Turkish irregular units attacked Armenian civilians as they...
...question of genocide should be left to historians," said the Turkish President Ahmet Nejdet Sezer in an attempt late last year to diffuse nationalist passions - a remark that earned him criticism at home for being too soft. To people like Berktay, the issue of whether it was genocide is a legal not a historical question: "Our job is to explain what happened and why it happened...
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