THOSE DENYING THE ARMENIAN GENOCIDE CANNOT RUN FOR THE DUTCH PARLIAMENT
Public Radio, Armenia
Oct 9 2006
The Foreign Minister of Netherlands Bernard Bot has addressed
the Turkish society of the country, asking to keep calm about the
non-permission of Turkish candidates, representing an ethnic minority,
to run for Parliament because of denying the fact of the Armenian
Genocide.
Turkish “Zaman” informs that assessing the created situatiion, the
Dutch Foreign Minister has declared that it is not the Government hat
has made up the problem. According to the current legislation of the
country, Parties denying the 1915 Armenian Genocide in the Ottoman
Turkey are automatically left out of the election campaign.
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