European Commission chief urges Turkey to recognize Armenian “genocide”
Arminfo
19 Sep 04
Yerevan, 19 September: European Commission President Romano Prodi
considers that Turkey should recognize the 1915 Armenian genocide in
Ottoman Turkey. Prodi announced this today during a meeting with
students of the European regional academy of information and
communications technology of Armenia.
“I am trying to understand why the European Union [EU] does not
recognize the Armenian genocide in Turkey. If you think that France
and Germany shed less blood than you then you are mistaken, but now
there is peace between them and they cooperate within the framework of
the European Union,” he noted.
He said that Turkey’s accession to the EU would change many
things. The EU member countries did not fight one another for two
generations, and this speaks for itself, the president of the European
Commission added.
“We shall change Turkey, though I do not know how, but we shall change
it without fail. Turkey should carry out a number of reforms,” Romano
Prodi said.