The Danish Royal Library is hosting an exhibition on the Ottoman empire's genocide of more than a million Christian Armenians. The Turks have complained and have now offered to make their own parallel exhibition in the library with the title "
The socalled Armenian genocide"...
"After a meeting with the Turkish Ambassador The Royal Library has agreed to co-organize an alternative exhibition on the Armenian genocide.
The Turkish ambassador responded to the Royal Library as a result of the exhibition "The Armenian Genocide and Scandinavian response", which is currently displayed on the University of Copenhagen in collaboration between the library and the Armenian Embassy.
The sensitive issue of the Armenian genocide has previously led to sharp diplomatic reactions from Turkey, and both historians and politicians criticized the Royal Library for giving in to Turkish pressure.
"This is a bow to Turkish pressure and it is not alright. With out further comparison it would be the same as asking neo-Nazis to organize exhibitions about the Holocaust,' says Danish People's Party's foreign affairs spokesman Soren Espersen.
Historian Matthias Bjorn Lund, who is one of the leading Danish experts in the Armenian genocide, is concerned about the library's handling of the case:
"If you believe that all interpretations of history are equally good, then you have undermined your own role as a institution for scientific research. There was a genocide, and not all interpretations of this story are true."
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The Royal Library gives in to Turkey's wish
"It was very unexpected that they (Turkey) had been offered an exhibition under that title. It was shocking. Our exhibition is about the Armenian Genocide and the Scandinavian response. It is mostly about how brave Scandinavians helped the Armenian people during the genocide. This context makes the counter-exhibition entitled 'the so-called Armenian genocide' even more wrong," said Hrachya Aghajanyan (Armenian ambassador)".
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The socalled genocide"
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Turkey is an Islamicist state. Their genocide of the Armenians is a FACT. They will soon be in public denial of the holocaust of the Jews by their hero, Adolf Hitler.
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