DENIALIST TURKEY HAS LITTLE CHANCE TO JOIN EU

PanARMENIAN.Net
05.02.2007 17:03 GMT+04:00

/PanARMENIAN.Net/ The recognition of the Armenian Genocide at the hands
of the Ottoman Empire in 1915-1917 has actually become fundamental in
the EU membership talks. Lenta.ru reminds that according to historical
data, some 1.5 million of ethnic Armenians were slaughtered during
those years. Ankara refuses to call it Genocide and describes the
mass killings as "forced migration of the people."

However, denialist Turkey seems to have little chance to join the
European Union. First, the French parliament passed a law criminalizing
the Armenian Genocide denial and providing for a 45 000-euro fine
or a year in prison. Now, if Europe approves the German law calling
for 3 years of imprisonment for denial of Holocaust, genocides and
military crimes in Africa and Balkans during the recent decades,
Ankara will have to change views on her own past," reports Lenta.ru.