HURRIYET- Columnist Tufan Turenc writes on a book published by an American writer on the Armenian deception campaign. A summary of his column is as follows:
Armenian fanatics are expending every possible effort to sabotage the friendship between two nations. It is not comprehensible why they are doing this or what purpose they think this would serve? Their aim is to pit Turks and Armenians against each other. A new book on the issue, entitled ‘Armenia- The Great Deception,’ will be published in the US on April 6. The writer is Sam Weems, a retired prosecutor living in Arkansas. A fervent Christian, Weems states in his book that Armenians used all kinds of lies and slanders to defame Turks using their religious identity in the process, and supports these claims with documents. Weems studies the archives in Washington, London, Paris, Moscow and Istanbul, but he was barred from access to the Armenian archives. He says that the large number of churches in Turkey show the tolerance of its people, whereas none of the old mosques on Armenian soil stand any longer. His demographic calculations, extrapolated from the reports of US and British civil servants and military officials serving in Turkey, show that a genocide having occurred out of the question.
SOURCE: OFFICE OF THE PRIME MINISTER, DIRECTORATE GENERAL OF PRESS AND INFORMATION