PRESIDENT EXPRESSES SOLIDARITY WITH ARMENIANS OVER TURKISH GENOCIDE

Kathimerini, Greece
June 28 2007

Papoulias in Yerevan

President Karolos Papoulias yesterday aimed a clear jab at Turkey
for its genocide of the Armenians during a visit to Yerevan, the
Armenian capital. "This genocide constitutes the most barbaric
act in the contemporary history of mankind," Papoulias wrote in a
visitors’ book at the site of a monument to the Armenian genocide in
Yerevan. Later yesterday, the Greek president had talks with Armenian
Prime Minister Serge Sargsyan. "Both our nations have lived through
tortuous times this century," Papoulias said in a clear reference to
Greece’s suffering under the Ottoman occupation.