ARF Youth Organization member speak to Turkish press

ARF Youth Organization member speak to Turkish press

17.06.2005 13:47

YEREVAN (YERKIR) – The adoption of an Armenian Genocide resolution
by the German Bundestag on Thursday has stirred a rapid reaction in
the Turkish media.

In this context, the Turkish media is showing an increasing interest
in the members of the Armenian Revolutionary Federation’s Youth
Organization members, who are in Istanbul to participate in an
International Union of Socialist Youth (IUSY) meeting. Yerkir-Media
reporter talked with the delegation member, Zinavor Meghrian,
who said that the delegation members were interviewed by several
Turkish newspapers. Milliyet’s reporter asked us to comment on
the Armenian-Turkish relations, and especially the Genocide issue,
Meghrian said.

“We explicitly noted that it is Turkey that stands as an obstacle on
the Armenian-Turkish relations; Armenia has never shut the borders,
and that Turkey has put forward preconditions for normalizing the
relations,” Meghrian mentioned. “We also said we have no doubts in
the fact of the Armenian Genocide; it is a historic fact, and Turkey
should make a step towards admitting to it.”