Turkish premier raises Armenian genocide issue at Council of Europe summit

PAP news agency
17 May 05

Warsaw, 17 May: Turkish Prime Minister Tayyip Erdogan has criticized
resolutions which have been passed by “parliaments of various
countries” [including Poland] to honour the victims of the 1915-17
massacre of Armenians in Turkey.

Erdogan, addressing the second day of debates of the 3rd Council of
Europe summit said that the passing of such resolutions is “unjust.”
The Turkish prime minister termed the recurring around the world
voices on, as he termed, “the so called Armenian genocide” as “lobbying
which Turkey does not support.”

He added that the road to agreement on the developments which took
place 90 years ago leads through cooperation of historians from Turkey
and Armenia as well as from other countries.

“We have opened our archives and we ask Armenia to do the
same…[ellipsis as published]” “Each political decision should be
based on solid documents. This is our precondition,” stressed the
prime minister.