The danger to the Turks is that the Armenians will want recompense for losing their land, just as the Jews of Europe demanded from the Germans, Robert Fisk, the Independent's Middle East correspondent said in an interview with Armenian Reporter. "I suppose the EU will have to help Turkey out with that. But you can't go on forever denying it. It will come back and back and back. And then you die and then there's your children and their children's children, and it'll keep on going, like it does with the Palestinians and anyone who's been dispossessed; they'll keep it going. You know you will not get Turkish Armenia back, it's not going to happen - maybe in 10,000 years, but not now - but at least you can have that recognition. Of course there will be claims. After all, American insurance companies have at last started paying out insurance claims against victims of the Armenian Genocide - or "the Armenian tragedy," as they call it. Even the insurance companies will not call it by its rightful name," he said.

"More and more Turkish academics are trying to push it through. The problem is, if the Western governments, including the United States, stood up to the Turks and said they must acknowledge it, they would. But since they don't, the Turks don't have to. They get away with it," Mr Fisk underscored.