July 29, 2005 - 09:30 AMT
SWISS PARLIAMENTARIAN: TURKEY BOUND TO ACKNOWLEDGE ARMENIAN GENOCIDE
Chairman of the commission for foreign affairs of the Swiss House of Representatives Ervin Jutset stated that Turkey must acknowledge the Armenian Genocide, otherwise it will face serious problems with the EU. In his words, Turkey should abandon its tone of aggression and blackmail and proceed to reform. When commenting on the criminal prosecution against Chairman of the Turkish Union of Historians Yusuf Ghalaoghlu and Chairman of the Turkish Labor Party Dogu Perincek, who keep on denying the Armenian Genocide, the Swiss parliamentarian that unless Turkey assumes the responsibility for the Armenian Genocide it will perceive any events of the kind oversensitively, Yerkir online reports.