WOLFGANG BOSBACH: TURKEY CANNOT CONTUNUE TO DENY ARMENIAN GENOCIDE
YEREVAN, MARCH 3. ARMINFO. Turkey cannot continue to deny the fact of
Armenian Genocide in Ottoman Turkey at the beginning of the 20th
century, Leader of the faction of Christian-Democratic and
Christian-Socialist unions of Germany’s Parliament Wolfgang Bosbach
stated at an action organized in Cologne by the Union of Turkish
Democrats on the topic of “How Will be Conducted Negotiations With
Turkey?”
According to the Turkish “Hurriyet” newspaper, the statement of the
German opposition leader caused discontent of Juneyd Zapsui, the
foreign affairs adviser of Turkish Prime-Minister. He said that Turkey
is ready to discuss these issues with Armenian representatives but not
Armenian Diaspora. The adviser also noted that there are other
problems to discuss and tried to divert the participants’ attention
from the theme of Genocide. In response of this statement Bosbach
perpexedly noted, “What issues Turkey may have concerning Armenia
besides the Genocide issue”.
He stressed that if Ankara wants to be a member of the European family
it must change its position in the Genocide issue. Zapsui stopped the
discussions and stated that if their ancestors were actually
barbarians there would be no Christian left in Eastern Europe.