Turkish lawmaker: Door of Genocide recognition is not open (video)
If you haven't accepted your former mistakes, you cannot speak about progress. This is the reaction of Turkey’s Peoples’ Democratic Party lawmaker Ertuğrul Kürkçü every time, when the authorities of his country speak of democracy, defense of human rights and reforms. Saying former mistake, the Turkish lawmaker bears in mind the Armenian Genocide. The representatives of the pro-Kurdish party don’t refrain from using the word ‘genocide’ while speaking about the atrocity of 1915. “Though the fact of the Armenian Genocide is discussed in different circles of Turkey, the door of recognition is not open yet. The recognition is far from being official, it is only at the public level,” he says. His party is for the settlement of relations with Armenia, and declares that the Armenian-Turkish relations shouldn’t depend on the Artsakh issue. By the way, Ertuğrul Kürkçü is the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE) delegate, who was reprimanded by Turkey’s Prime Minister. In mid-April in Strasbourg Ahmet Davutoğlu offered him to ask his question in Turkish and didn’t accept the criticism on the use of violence against the Kurds. Ertuğrul Kürkçü advises him to remember before boasting that the delegates read the PACE reports on Turkey. Watch the video for more details!
