TURKEY THREATENS FRANCE WITH DEPORTATION OF 

70 THOUSAND ARMENIANS

"Turkey should deport 70,000 Armenian migrants if

the bill on punishment for denying the Armenian Genocide is adopted

by France Parliament," Yashar Yakish, Turkey former Foreign Minister

and chairman of the Parliament's Adaptation Commission to the EU

said, reported APA. Having told about the strong Armenian lobby,

numbering 400, 000, he said 70,000 Armenians work illegally in

Turkey. "They will have problems when Turkey government sends them

back to Armenia. Armenia should realize its responsibility. It can

be said that Armenia is taking the punishment for France," the former

Turkish FM said.

CHIRAC CALLS FOR TURKEY TO RECOGNISE 

WW1 ARMENIAN GENOCIDE

President Jacques Chirac has begun a two day visit to Armenia. The

French leader paid his respects at a monument to thousands of people

who were killed in the area during the World War One. Chirac used the

occasion to urge Turkey to recognise the 1915 to 1919 massacres at

the hands of the former Ottoman Turk regime. He said "All countries

grow up acknowledging their dramas and their errors."

 According to Armenian sources, more than 1.5 million people died

in mass killings and deportations. They claim the deaths amounted

to genocide. But Turkey, which wants to be a member of the EU,

continues to reject this and says the total number of deaths were

nearer a quarter- of- million and sparked by an internal conflict.

TURKEY OBJECTS PUBLISHING LAND RECORD 

DOCUMENTS  OF OTTOMAN EMPIRE

 The Internet version of "Huriet" touched upon the limitations

for the publications of the land record documents of the Ottoman

Empire. In particular, Turkey's National Security council objects the

translation of the abovementioned documents from the Ottoman Turkish

into the modern Turkish language. They condition their position by

the concern that the documents may be used for political or ethnic

goals, including the claims concerning the Armenian genocide.

Turkey's National Security Council sent a special letter to the

relevant land administration bodies of the country urging them to

keep them the documents in secret without letting anyone publish them.

TURKEY SHOULD RECOGNIZE THE ARMENIAN GENOCIDE, 

GERMAN PARLIAMENTARIAN CONSIDERS

"Turkey should recognize the crime committed against the Armenian

nation during Ottoman rule," said members of the Social Democratic

Party of Germany, Deputy Chairman of the Parliamentary German-Caucasian

Friendship Group Yorg Taus.

The politician noted that Germany is interested in the stable

development of the South Caucasus, ArmInfo reports. "Germany is

interested in Armenia, Georgia and Azerbaijan primarily from economic

and political perspectives. By the way, the interest is not restricted

to the existence of oil in Azerbaijan.

The region is attractive from perspective of strategic importance

and closeness to Iran," he noted.

KALONSKA: GERMANY SHOULD RECOGNIZE 

ARMENIAN GENOCIDE
Germany should recognize the Armenian
Genocide unreservedly, Hans Kalonska, the director of Germany's
Marborg-Bidenkopf Red Cross said when speaking to 

reporters in Yerevan. The German Red Cross delegation visited 

Sunday the Armenian Genocide Memorial to pay homage to the 

1915 Genocide victims.
Kalonska said the Armenian Genocide resolution passed by the German
Bundestag should have had described the events of the past century
in more precise legal terms.
"The resolution has not found adequate resonance in the German society
though Germany shares a responsibility for the crime," Kalonska
said. He also said that Turkey cannot join the European Union until
it has recognized the Armenian Genocide.

ARCHAEOLOGISTS DISCOVER AN OLD TOWN IN KARABAKH
Artsakh's town of Tigranakert, built in the 1st century BC by
Tigran II The Great, has been discovered in the Eastern border of
Nagorno Karabakh. Yerkir non-profit organization reports that the
archaeological team of the National Academy of Sciences conducted the
archaeological dig, headed by Hamlet Petrosyan, PHD in History. Yerkir
is the initiator and sponsor of the excavations. The findings of the
scientists need to be further elaborated. However, the available
data are enough to prove once again that Artsakh has historically
been part of Armenia as an important province in the eastern part of
the country.