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MESSAGE OF PRIME MINISTER THE HONOURABLE TONY ABBOTT MP
TO THE AUSTRALIAN TURKISH ADVOCACY ALLIANCE
ANZAC CENTENARY DINNER
ON FRIDAY 20 MARCH 2015
Australian Turkish Advocacy Alliance ANZAC Centenary Dinner
The Waterview, Bicentennial Park, Homebush
20 March 2015
As Australia commemorates the centenary of the First World War, we remember the tide of events that shaped our nation.
This year we mark the Centenary of the landings at Gallipoli.
During the dawn of 25 April 1915, Australian troops came ashore at Anzac Cove. This was the beginning of Australia’s “baptism of fire”. (more…)
by Tal Buenos
Geoffrey Robertson is not the first to write a book or a newspaper article in a manner that presents Turks as genocidal and deniers, without being a scholar of Ottoman history. He is not the first for whom the accusation of genocide is a hobby. The ease with which such writers can publish inaccuracies at the expense of Turks has become a regular feature of Western media. However, when it happens in Australia it is a matter of greater disappointment.
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