ALLEGED 1985 MEETING OF SOVIET POLITBURO DEBATED PROCLAIMING APRIL 24TH AS ARMENIAN GENOCIDE DAY

In the January 10th on-line edition of the Ankara-based Journal of Turkish Weekly, there appears a translation of a purported 1985 meeting of the Soviet Politburo that debated the pros and cons of officially proclaiming April 24th as Armenian Genocide Memorial Day throughout the Soviet Union.

According to the article, on the eve of the 70th anniversary of the Armenian Genocide, Karen Demirchian, First Secretary of Armenia's Communist Party, had sent a letter regarding the issue to the Central Committee of the Soviet Communist Party. At the time Mikhail Gorbachev was the General Secretary of the Communist Party of The Soviet Union.

Those who wish to read more regarding the alleged meeting, the minutes of which were recently unearthed by an Azeri scholar doing research at the United States National Security Archives, should visit the Journal of Turkish Weekly.