Turkish Press
March 21 2005

Press Review

Turkiye:

GUL: “GENOCIDE ALLEGATIONS HAVE NOTHING TO DO WITH TURKEY’S EU MEMBERSHIP”

Foreign Minister Abdullah Gul said yesterday that there was no
direct or indirect linkage between the Armenian so-called genocide
allegations and Turkey’s European Union membership bid. Speaking
in Parliament, Gul said that Ankara had fulfilled the Copenhagen
criteria as confirmed by both last October’s EU Commission report
and December’s EU summit. Stressing that a History Research Group had
been formed to investigate the allegations, Gul said that in the near
future their findings on the issue would be released for the benefit
of Turkey and the international community. /Turkiye/