EUP HR DELEGATION FOCUSES ON RECOGNITION OF GENOCIDE

RISK MONITOR BRIEFING
October 10, 2005

According to Cumhuriyet, Members of the European Parliament Human
Rights Subcommittee led by Helene Flautre paid a visit to the Turkish
Parliament. During the meeting, delegation members called on Ankara
to recognize the Armenian genocide claims and consider the issue of
education in Kurdish. Polish members of the delegation noted that
Poland had to acknowledge its part in the Jewish holocaust and asked
when Turkey would face up to its own history.