Turkish CDA members gone due to Armenia-row

Turkish CDA members gone due to Armenia-row

NOS (Dutch news agency)
26 September 2006

The Turkish CDA (Christian Democrats) members Tonca and Elmaci are no longer
candidate MPs. The CDA decided to remove them from the list after commotion
over the recognition of the Armenian Genocide.

Tonca and Elmaci have continuously denied that Turks committed genocide
against the Armenians in 1915. As candidate MPs, they subscribed this week
to the CDA’s standpoint that a genocide was committed. Today, they
nevertheless took those words back in a Turkish newspaper.

Earlier, the PvdA (Labor Party) administration removed Erdinc Sacan from the
candidate’s list. He did not subscribe to the PvdA’s standpoint on the
genocide by Turks.