According to the newspaper Trouw , Saçan clearly stated in a chat box of one of his websites that he was a denier of the Armenian Genocide of 1915 . PvdA-management asked him to explain this when his comments became public following similar controversial statements of CDA . His first stance was to follow the PvdA-position ( that the event was a genocide ) . Two days later however , on 26 September 2006 , Saçan declared he still denied the genocide and withdrew his candidacy of the PvdA . Nebahat Albayrak , number 2 on the PvdA-election list , indicated on behalf of the PvdA that the party should no longer " turn around " the actions surrounding the event and called for a reevaluation of the facts ( jointly by Armenia and Turkey ) because " all sources had become unclear " . Saçan 's seat at the States-Provincial was not under discussion ; and he declared to be against any form of violence ( also genocide )
Armenian Genocide
Armenian Genocide
Erdinç Saçan