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Massachusetts Federal Appeals Court regards promotion of Armenian lies as legal

13 August 2010 10:51 (UTC +04:00)

Washington. Isabel Levine â€“ APA. A Massachusetts Federal Appeals Court has ruled out on August 12 that Massachusetts public schools directions for teaching modern history can exclude views that question the events of 1915 that Armenians call genocide.
APAâ€™s Washington DC correspondent has learnt from the 1st U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals that it decided that the state did not violate the rights on free speech in 1999 by excluding sources that questioned the 1915 events.

A number of Armenians and Turkish Diaspora representatives gathered near the court building waiting for the decision.
Jevdet Yiloglu, a representative of Turkish Diaspora told APAâ€™s correspondent, that the Diaspora met this news with disappointment, but: â€œWe donâ€™t give up; we will go further in defeating our beliefs. The world must know about Armenian liesâ€.

The Turkish Diaspora told APA, that they are going to file another appeal.

The Armenian Diaspora on the contrary welcomed the decision.

Turkish Diaspora organizations filed the suit in 2005 as a First Amendment case to thwart the teaching of the 1915 events as genocide in public schools by insisting on the inclusion of denialist literature in the commonwealthâ€™s mandated curriculum.