A panel with title "Reply to pro-Armenian propagand", agaisnt apology campaign which is initiated by a group of Turkish "ntellectuals" to apologize to Armenians about 1915 events, is arranged by Gazi University School of Economics and Administrative Sciences Public Administration Research Community.
Giving a lecture in the panel Professor Doctor Yusuf Halacoglu said that Turkish people should be enlighted about Armenian issue. Halacoglu said that he can't understand the people who initiates and apology campaign who do not now Ottoman's langauge and who never been in Ottoman archives.
One of the former Ministers Hasan Celal Guzel said that Armenians were living with Turks in Anatolia before Ottoman Empire too. Stating that Seljuks saved Armenians from the massacres of Byzantines, Guzel underscored that Armenians were the Christian community which lived with Turks in peace. Hasan Celal Guzel said that there are approximately 70,000 Armenians in Turkey and they are not seperated from Turkish citizens of Turkey. After a question of a student about the murder of Turkish Armenian journalist Hrant Dink, Hasan Celal Guzel said, "The murder of Hrant Dink brought Turkey many troubles. If i were you i would seek the role of diaspora behind this event."
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