LEADER OF TURKISH OPPOSITION: “THE EU IS TRYING TO MAKE ‘GENOCIDE’
RECOGNITION A PRECONDITION FOR OUR ACCESSION TALKS”

YEREVAN, MARCH 2. ARMINFO. Addressing his party’s parliamentary group
meeting yesterday, opposition Republican People’s Party (CHP) leader
Deniz Baykal evaluated recent domestic and foreign developments.

Touching on the so-called Armenian genocide issue, Baykal said that
the European Union was trying to make recognizing the “genocide” a
precondition for Turkey’s EU membership, “The EU is trying to make it
a condition for Ankara to recognize the ‘genocide’ before we can begin
our accession talks,” he said. Baykal criticized what he called the
government’s inaction on the issue. “We’ll soon bring up the issue in
Parliament,” he stressed.

From: Emil Lazarian | Ararat NewsPress