ArmenPress
March 15 2005

ARF YOUTH WING DEMANDS EU MEMBERS TO RECOGNIZE ARMENIAN GENOCIDE

YEREVAN, MARCH 15, ARMENPRESS: A youth organization, affiliated
with the Armenian Revolutionary Federation (ARF) marched today
through central Yerevan streets to the European Union’s office in
Yerevan to demand that EU member countries recognize the 1915
Armenian genocide committed by the government of the Ottoman Empire.
A statement by the demonstrators says Turkey has no right to become
an EU member.
The protest march was organized to coincide with the 84-th
anniversary of a Berlin court verdict that acquitted an Armenian
student Soghomon Teilerian, who killed one of the perpetrators of the
genocide, Taliat Pasha.
The statement said Turkey could join the civilized family of
European nations only after acknowledging its responsibility for mass
massacres of Armenians.