A conference on “Armenian issue and 1909 events in Adana” was organized at Chukorov University in Turkey. However, the conference failed to mention the massacres of Armenians in Adana, preceding the Armenian Genocide in 1915.

Former Turkish parliamentarian Uluc Gurkan also participated in the conference. He accused Turkish authorities of soft position on Armenian issue, stressing Turkey is a target of illegal and racist attacks, Yeni Adana website reports

“What did Turkey do? Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan’s statement “We will set up a joint subcommittee of historians, open archives and let historians’ study them,” will soon turn out into “Let’s apologize and the issue will be closed,” Gurkan noted. He tried to explain why the Armenian Genocide was not a genocide, unlike Holocaust.