The EU Puts Off the Pan-European Recognition of Armenian Genocide Because of Turkey

Over a century ago the genocide of the Armenian people started. It's the second most known fact in the history of extermination of people on a national basis after the Holocaust. However, recognition of these tragic events as genocide still remains a hot topic of discussion for the entire international community. As it's known, the fact of the genocide, which affected more than a million of Armenians, has been recognized by the parliaments of many European countries, in particular, Austria, France, Belgium, Switzerland, etc. But not all EU member states show out European solidarity towards the Armenian people. This problem has been repeatedly raised by French president Emmanuel Macron who believes that the struggle to recognize the tragic events that occurred in the Ottoman Empire at the beginning of the last century is a struggle for truth and justice. Recently, the French leader announced that the Armenian Genocide Remembrance Day would be included in the national calendar of France, and he also called upon for recognition of the genocide at the European level.

So, why are the EU leaders not willing to put on the agenda a question that, it would seem, has needed a solution for a long time? As it turned out, the reasons why European institutions ignore the problem of recognition of the Armenian Genocide are purely of political origin. This became known from a letter by German MEP Elmar Brok addressed to President of the European Council Donald Tusk.



https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2018/10/22/18818385.php

Oh ffs... when will people realize that Turkey is essentially Saudi Arabia but less honest about it

No idea what this is about, seeing that claims presented are grossly outdated.

The European Parliament recognized the genocide on Armenians decades ago, the Council as long ago as 2001.

This is for anyone who is deeply interested in the topic. I just wanted to pass this info along to you.


There are two new books on the subject.

They are reviewed in the April 4, 2019, print issue of the New York Review of Books.


The article by Mark Mazower is entitled "An Archive of Atrocities." (I'm assuming it's online, too. Being computer illiterate, I cannot link to it anyway.)


Here are the titles of the two new books:


Killing Orders: Talat Pasha's Telegrams and the Armenian Genocide by Taner Akcam; Talat Pasha: Father of Modern Turkey, Architect of Genocide by Hans-Lukas Kieser.