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Armenian National Archive Director: Our archives are open (video)

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Dozens of books and documents on the Armenian Genocide will be published before April 2015. “In 2012, we published the three volumes of the book “The Armenian Genocide in the Ottoman Empire. This year, we plan to publish its fourth and fifth volumes in Armenian.  In 2014, the book was published in Istanbul, Turkey and soon it will be published in Russian,” says Amatuni Virabyan, Director of the Armenian National Archive. At the same time the National Archive continues to compile a list of the names of Armenian Genocide victims – a move started in autumn 2014. They have already compiled the names of 33 000 people as of January 2015. Mr Virabyan says until 2014, Turkish officials claimed that Armenia’s archives are closed there are no documents about the genocide. “Now we are proving the opposite. Dear Turkish scholars, historians, journalists, we announce that our archives are open and you can come and check any information you want. We publish these documents, translating them into the Turkish and English languages abd spreading them all over the world,” Mr Virabyan said.