Turkey slams European Parliament call for recognition of Armenian genocide
Turkey slams European Parliament call for recognition of Armenian genocide –
Turkey’s Foreign Ministry’s spokesman Tanju Bilgic called the European Parliament’s report urging the EU member states to recognize the Armenian genocide “problematic and controversial in all the aspects.”
MOSCOW (Sputnik News) — The European Parliament’s report urging the EU member states to recognize the Armenian genocide is concerning and “far from historic reality,” Turkey’s Foreign Ministry’s spokesman Tanju Bilgic said Saturday.
“We regret that this [European Parliament’s] statement is problematic and controversial in all the aspects,” Bilgic said in a statement published on the ministry’s website.
The European Parliament’s Annual Report on Human Rights and Democracy published earlier this week called “ahead of the 100th anniversary of the Armenian genocide, on all the Member States legally to acknowledge it, and encourages the Member States and the EU institutions to contribute further to its recognition.”