Turks file lawsuit against American university for recognizing Armenian Genocide

Turks file lawsuit against American university for recognizing Armenian Genocide
December 11, 2010 12:06
ôhe Turkish Coalition of America filed a lawsuit against the Center for Holocaust and Genocide Studies, which is part of the University of Minnesota.
“This Center has a website for students and researchers which suggests, among other things, recommended readings. It also indicates that other texts on these subjects are “unreliable”, beginning with the texts of the Turkish Coalition,” reads the statement by Meir Waintrater, editor in chief and publisher of L’Arche, a French Jewish monthly magazine.
This fact has angered Turkish lobbyists and they filed a lawsuit against the university, its president, and educator Bruno Chaouat, who directs the Center. “They have been defamed, they say, they are being denied the right to speak,” Waintrater says.
“All this may seem far, very far, from us. In reality, we are directly concerned. Not only because the academic in question, Bruno Chaouat, is a French citizen. What happens today in Minneapolis could occur tomorrow in Paris, if we are not careful,” he says addressing French Jews.
April 24, 2001 is declared Armenian Remembrance Day in the State of Minnesota under proclamation as of March 16, 2001. The State of Minnesota recognized Armenian Genocide in Ottoman Empire.


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