On the day of the 16-th anniversary of the adoption by the European Parliament the first resolution, appealing to Turkey to recognize the Armenian Genocide, a petition of the "Union of Genocide Opponents" representing the Turkish citizens living in Germany was handed to European Parliament chairman Pat Cox. According to the report of the European Parliament Department for links with the press and public relations, the petition maintaining the appeal to the Turkish parliament to recognize the Armenian Genocide of 1915 was signed by 11 000 people, 10 000 of them being the citizens of Turkey.