Turkish FM: "We must learn lessons from the Holocaust"
EJP
Updated: 12/Oct/2007 13:10
JERUSALEM (EJP)—When he signed the guest book of the Yad Vashem
Holocaust Museum in Jerusalem during his visit earlier this week,
Turkish Foreign Minister Ali Babacan wrote:
"This museum reminds us all the heart-breaking memories of the
Holocaust. We must learn lessons from the Holocaust; the way the evil
took hold, the insidious appeal of its ideology, co-option of many
apparently respectable people.
If we understand the danger of fight against evil doctrines, to
scapegoat, despise and dehumanize any religion and people, our
children will certainly live in a better world. Genocide, ethnic
cleansing, racism, anti-Semitism, Islam-phobia, Christian-phobia,
xenophobia, all historical yet contemporary evils that the
international community shares a solemn responsibility to combat.
On behalf of the Turkish people and the Turkish Government, I want to
express our reverence for the victims of the immeasurable evil.
Blessed be their memory."
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