ARMENIAN “GENOCIDE” UNCONNECTED TO TURKEY’dS EU BID
IPR Strategic Business Information Database
March 22, 2005
According to Turkiye, Foreign Minister Abdullah Gul said that there
was no direct or indirect linkage between the Armenian so-called
genocide allegations and Turkey’ds European Union membership bid.
Speaking in Parliament, Gul said that Ankara had fulfilled the
Copenhagen criteria as confirmed by both last October’ds EU Commission
report and December’ds EU summit. Stressing that a History Research
Group had been formed to investigate the allegations, Gul said that
in the near future their findings on the issue would be released for
the benefit of Turkey and the international community.