American lawyer: Turkey government should appeal to International Court of Justice

American lawyer: Turkey government should appeal to International Court of Justice
# 17 April 2007 13:18 (UTC +04:00)
The Assembly of American Turkish Associations (ATAA) organized a conference to expose the claims on so-called “Armenian genocide” in New-York, APA’s US bureau reports.
Deputy Chief of ATAA Washington office, Gunay Evinj and prominent American lawyer Bruce Fein made statements in the conference.
Mr. Evinj considered it important for Turkish government appeal to International Court of Justice to refrain from making claims on so-called Armenian genocide.
He noted that 150,000 Turks were murdered during the revolt staged by over 40 Armenians in the territory where the ‘genocide’ is claimed to occur in 1820-1920. The lawyer reminded that local Armenians that did not join Armenian nationalists did not face any problems during 1915-1923.
The Turkish lawyer supported the idea of establishing Turkish-Armenian commission that will quote not policy, but law and history.
At the end of the conference a film “Armenian revolt” was demonstrated./APA/
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THE OPERATION IS BEING PERFORMED