“IF TURKEY HAD BEEN PUNISHED FOR ARMENIAN GENOCIDE, THE TURKISH INVASION AGAINST CYPRUS MAY NOT HAD TAKEN PLACE”

Times.am
May 12 2011
Armenia

President of the House of Representatives Marios Garoyian on Tuesday
stressed the responsibilities of the international community in regard
to Turkey’s crime of the Armenian Genocide saying that if Turkey had
been punished for that crime, the Turkish invasion against Cyprus
may not had taken place.

Describing Turkey as an international terrorist, he called upon Ankara
to admit its crime and apologize to humanity for it, Asbarez.com
informs.

If Turkey had been punished for its enormous crime of the Armenian
Genocide of 1915, the Turkish invasion against Cyprus may not have
taken place, he stressed, addressing Tuesday a school event entitled
Armenian Genocide from the past to the present.

Garoyian stressed the responsibilities of the international community,
saying that the Armenian Genocide must be condemned and recognized
by all and called upon Turkey to admit its crime and apologize to
the Armenian people and all humanity.

He went on to add that the international community’s failure to punish
Turkey increases Ankara’s intransigence and described Turkey as an
international terrorist, who, through military power, attempts to
impose its rule on neighbors and non-neighbors alike.

As long as Turkey remains unpunished, the international community
has no right to be proud of today’s world order, he stressed, adding
that the international community should feel as an accomplice as long
as the Armenian Genocide and other ethnic cleansing crimes of Turkey
remain unpunished.

He recalled that Cyprus was the first country to raise the issue in
the 1960s before the UN General Assembly, asking for an international
condemnation of the Genocide and said that the Cypriot House of
Representatives as well as the Greek Parliament were among the first
parliaments to have condemned it.