TURKEY HAS TO RECOGNIZE ARMENIAN GENOCIDE, THOUGH IT WILL HARDLY
CONDITION ACCESSION TO EU

PanArmenian News
Sept 27 2004

/PanARMENIAN.Net/ Official Ankara recognizing the Armenian Genocide
will hardly be a condition for Turkey’s accession to the European
Union, Vice-President of the Assembly of West European Union Marco
Zakera stated at a press conference in the Embassy of Italy in Armenia
today. At the same time he noted that Turkey has to recognize the
Armenian Genocide and reminded that in its time the Italian Parliament
passed a resolution, which mentions the massacre of Armenians in the
Ottoman Empire as genocide. In M. Zakera’s words, he is personally
for Turkey’s membership in the EU in case of fulfillment of certain
EU criteria.