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TURKEY IS CONCERNED ABOUT DISCUSSIONS ON ARMENIAN GENOCIDE IN KNESSET
ARMENPRESS
13 June, 2012
YEREVAN
YEREVAN, JUNE 13, ARMENPRESS: Turkey is deeply concerned about the
discussions on Armenian genocide in Israeli Parliament - Knesset.
Armenpress reports that Turkish diplomatic source informed "Zaman"
that Turkey would continue to insist that the issue is discussed not
in Parliaments but by historians. The newspaper reminds that during
the discussions in Knesset the minister of Environmental affairs of
Israel Gilad Erdan expressed idea that the Government of Israel is
not principally against recognizing "Holocaust perpetrated against
Armenian people". The newspaper also quotes the words of Israeli
Parliament speaker Reuven Rivlin who had mentioned that recognition of
Armenian genocide is the moral obligation of the Jewish people. Rivlin
also highlighted that the discussions in Knesset "have no intention
to provoke Turkey, but only are directed to the establishment of
historical truth".
ARMENPRESS
13 June, 2012
YEREVAN
YEREVAN, JUNE 13, ARMENPRESS: Turkey is deeply concerned about the
discussions on Armenian genocide in Israeli Parliament - Knesset.
Armenpress reports that Turkish diplomatic source informed "Zaman"
that Turkey would continue to insist that the issue is discussed not
in Parliaments but by historians. The newspaper reminds that during
the discussions in Knesset the minister of Environmental affairs of
Israel Gilad Erdan expressed idea that the Government of Israel is
not principally against recognizing "Holocaust perpetrated against
Armenian people". The newspaper also quotes the words of Israeli
Parliament speaker Reuven Rivlin who had mentioned that recognition of
Armenian genocide is the moral obligation of the Jewish people. Rivlin
also highlighted that the discussions in Knesset "have no intention
to provoke Turkey, but only are directed to the establishment of
historical truth".