Turkey is looking to join the EU, and yet it STILL refuses to acknowledge the genocide inflicted upon the Armenians, Assyrians and Pontic Greeks during and after WW1, where over 1 million Armenians died and the Assyrians lost two thirds of their entire population. Some Circassians and Georgians were also killed.
Turkish writers and commentators who mention the genocide are often arrested, prosecuted and jailed for doing so.
Should Turkey be pressured more on this issue, should it be taught in schools, along with the Holocaust, should Turkey be barred from the EU because of it?
NB; Its a fact of history that it did happen, the wounds are still there for the 3 races concerned, mainly because turkey wont admit it!
Also, the Germans, and even the Japanese to a certain degree admit the atrocities their nations committed, why cant the Turks?
2007-11-24
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