TURKEY - Congress dedicated to the Armenian Genocide from Bilgi University & UCLA cancelled.

TURKEY - Congress dedicated to the Armenian Genocide from Bilgi University and UCLA cancelled. (Fides).[GoogleTranslate].

The international conference dedicated to the Armenian Genocide, which was to be held in Istanbul, near Bilgi University on 26 April, was canceled unexpectedly.

The conference, entitled "Armenian genocide designs and Comparative Perspectives," was jointly organized by the University, the Turkish Foundation for History and the University of California Los Angeles should have seen the participation of teachers and internationally renowned researchers.

The cancellation of the event was sent to the organizers by the University Dean at the beginning of April. Thereafter, facing the spread of the news, the University issued a statement in which she tried to deny the cancellation of the event, saying that previously no formal request for the organization of it n 'had reached the office of the rector and that therefor the initiative had never been authorized.

In fact - according to the means of communication Turks - the initiative had already been announced for months on the website of the University dedicated to events and certification modules and participation in the congress had already been published.

Members of the team that organized the conference issued a statement in Agos, the bilingual Armenian weekly published in Istanbul, in which they confirm that the programming initiative followed the ordinary standards in force at the University, calling the cancellation of the conference "injury to academic freedom and freedom of expression, which causes damage to the well-deserved positive image of our University, built in so many years." 


Approximately 20 nations, including France and Russia, recognize the killings as genocide.

More on the Armenian genocide here.