Turkey should get rid of the Genocide burden

Yerkir
12.05.2004 14:32

YEREVAN (YERKIR) – Speaking at a roundtable discussion Wednesday in
Yerevan, European Parliament member Per Garton said Turkey should
admit the 1915 Armenian Genocide.

“Turkey should get rid of that burden. The European Union has
reinstated this year its decision recognizing the Genocide and calling
on Turkey to do so too,” Garton said at the discussion titled “Wider
Europe. New Neighborhood.”

It makes no sense for Turkey to deny the Genocide, according to
Garton, since immediately after the Genocide was perpetrated, the
Istanbul courts sentences to death the Turkish officials accountable
for it. Where would Germany be now hadn’t it admitted the Holocaust
against the Jews, the European diplomat asked?

Meanwhile, he mentioned he supported Turkey’s accession to the EU,
saying it would contribute to settling regional issues, including
the opening of the Turkish-Armenian border.

From: Emil Lazarian | Ararat NewsPress

Emil Lazarian

“I should like to see any power of the world destroy this race, this small tribe of unimportant people, whose wars have all been fought and lost, whose structures have crumbled, literature is unread, music is unheard, and prayers are no more answered. Go ahead, destroy Armenia . See if you can do it. Send them into the desert without bread or water. Burn their homes and churches. Then see if they will not laugh, sing and pray again. For when two of them meet anywhere in the world, see if they will not create a New Armenia.” - WS