KRONER: ANKARA WILL FINALLY HAVE TO RECOGNIZE ARMENIAN GENOCIDE

PanARMENIAN.Net
16.05.2006 17:51 GMT+04:00

/PanARMENIAN.Net/ May 16 Secretary General of the International
European Movement (IEM) Henrik H. Kroner visited Armenian Genocide
Memorial to pay homage to the victims of the Armenian Genocide in
1915. Mr. Kroner was accompanied by Victor Yengibarian, head of the
organization’s mission to Armenia, and Kiro Manoyan, director of
ARF Bureau’s Hay Dat and Political Affairs Office. In the book of
the Genocide Museum Kroner inscribed: “Let’s hope no such genocide
will take place again in Europe and world. And the European values
are the guarantees of our unification.”

Speaking to journalists Kroner said it is a shame this crime has not
been recognized thus far. “The European Union has been established to
avoid such tragedies in the future. I think Turkey will never become
an EU member unless it admits its past. The process has just begun
and will take many years. Ankara will have to yield in the end,”
Kroner said.

Kiro Manoyan, director of the ARF Bureau’s Hay Dat and Political
Affairs Office, said Turkey deserves a thank-you to an extent because
it was due to its denialist policy that the Armenian Genocide issue was
raised and Turkey came under criticism, reports the Yerkir newspaper.