@based_tr According to European Court of Human Rights judge Giovanni Bonello the suspension of prosecutions, the repatriation and release of Turkish detainees was amongst others a result of the lack of an appropriate legal framework with supranational jurisdiction
@based_tr According to Sabanci University Professor Halil Berktay, there were two serious efforts to purge the archives of any incriminating documents on the Armenian question. The first took place in 1918, presumably before the Allied forces occupied Istanbul.
@based_tr Berktay and others point to testimony in the 1919 Turkish Military Tribunals indicating that important documents had been stolen from the archives.
@based_tr Berktay believes a second purge was executed in conjunction with Özal's efforts to open the archives by a group of retired diplomats and generals led by former Ambassador Muharrem Nuri Birgi. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prosecuti…
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