Turkish Press
June 20 2005

Press Review

MILLIYET

GUL: `GERMANY IS LOOKING FOR A PARTNER IN GUILT’

Speaking to journalists from Turkish daily Zaman, Foreign Minister
Abdullah Gul yesterday criticized the German Parliament’s adoption of
a resolution denouncing a so-called massacre of Armenians during the
Ottoman era. Stating that the German Parliament had taken an
unacceptable decision, Gul said, `The decision is full of mistakes.
It talks about the UN’s determination concerning this issue. However,
international institutions have no determination about it. We want
them to produce evidence, but they can’t. Prime Minister Recep Tayyip
Erdogan’s letter to Armenian President Robert Kocharian is passed
over in just a few lines, but the speech made by Justice Minister
Cemil Cicek at the Parliament and the postponed conference on the
Armenian issue are there. The most important issue is to ensure the
integration of 3 million Turks [living in Germany]. This decision
opens the door to provoking enmity towards Turkey. The current German
government is opposed to it, in particular German Chancellor Gerhard
Schroeder.’ He added that the decision was motivated by guilt about
the Nazi Holocaust and that Germans were looking to share this guilt.
/Milliyet/

From: Emil Lazarian | Ararat NewsPress