ARMENIAN GROUP: EUROPE CAN USE US AGAINST TURKEY’S EU BID

The New Anatolian, Turkey
Dec 19 2006

A group of Armenians are calling on Europe to use the nation as
an instrument against Turkey’s European Union membership bid, a
pan-Armenian website reported on Monday.

According to the site, Hay Dat (the Armenian Cause Committee of
America) head Kiro Manoyan said in a statement that Europe used Greece
and Greek Cyprus as an instrument against Turkey’s EU bid in the past
and added, "We must understand that we can become an instrument in
the EU’s hands against Turkey. Armenia’s turn will come, and we must
be ready for it."

Stressing that Turkey should implement reforms for its negotiations on
EU membership, Manoyan also urged Ankara to acknowledge the Armenian
genocide claims of 1915. "The demand to acknowledge the Armenian
‘genocide’ comes from the Armenian diaspora, not from official
Yerevan," he added.