FRENCH SOCIALIST LEADER URGES TURKEY TO RECOGNIZE SO- CALLED ARMENIAN
GENOCIDE FOR EU MEMBERSHIP
Turkishpress.com
Saturday June 5, 2004
French Socialist Party (SP) leader Francois Hollande yesterday said
that the European Union giving a date to Turkey to begin its accession
talks should be contingent on Ankara recognizing the so-called Armenian
genocide. In a joint press conference with Murat Papazyan, the European
head of Armenia’s Tashnak Party, Hollande said that in addition to the
Copenhagen criteria, Turkey should heed a 1987 European Parliament
1987 resolution calling for recognition of the so-called genocide,
withdrawal of Turkish troops from Cyprus and respect for human and
minority rights. /Milliyet/
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