PROTEST ACTION AGAINST EU-TURKEY TALKS HELD AT EU YEREVAN OFFICE TODAY

Pan Armenian
03.10.2005 13:04

/PanARMENIAN.Net/ Today the youth wing of the ARF Dashnaktsutyun
has organized an action in front of the EU Yerevan Office to protest
against the EU-Turkey’s talks scheduled to open on October 3. “Via this
action we protest against Turkey’s attempt to join Europe. Turkey is a
country with bloody hands, a country that perpetrated Genocide. Europe
being an embodiment of democratic ideas cannot accept a country like
Turkey. The matter concerns not only the Armenian Genocide but the
way national minorities are treated there, constant infringement of
human and political rights,” one of the action initiators stated in
a conversation with PanARMENIAN.Net reporter. The action initiators
have addressed a letter to the EU member-states and the UK Embassy in
Armenia. The letter says in part, “The Armenian Genocide perpetrated
in 1915 is the first crime against humanity targeted at elimination of
a whole nation, one of the founders of the world civilization. Despite
this, the super powers do not pay proper attention to the issue. The
90-th anniversary of the Armenian Genocide is being marked this
year. During these 90 years and until now Turkey pursues the policy of
denial imposing blockade upon Armenia and holding a biased position on
the Nagorno Karabakh conflict. National and religious minorities are
still treated with scorn in Turkey, constitutional human rights are
not observed. Today Turkey with its hands in blood is trying to join
the European family. We call upon the EU member-states, in the name
of democracy, peoples and human rights not to open negotiations with
Turkey, for this country has not acknowledged the Armenian Genocide
yet and keeps on using violence against the national minorities. The
accession of today’s Turkey to the European Union will undermine the
authority of the organization in the opinion of peoples throughout
the globe.”