{"id":15248,"date":"2009-10-09T04:31:30","date_gmt":"2009-10-09T02:31:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.turkishforum.com.tr\/en\/content\/?p=15248"},"modified":"2023-04-05T10:34:42","modified_gmt":"2023-04-05T07:34:42","slug":"european-parliament-surrenders-to-armenian-diaspora","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/2009\/10\/09\/european-parliament-surrenders-to-armenian-diaspora\/","title":{"rendered":"EUROPEAN PARLIAMENT SURRENDERS TO ARMENIAN DIASPORA"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"ja-mainnavwrap1\">\n<div id=\"ja-mainnavwrap2\"><span id=\"ja-hp-switch\" style=\"display: block;\"> <\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><!-- END: MAIN NAVIGATION --> <!-- BEGIN: HEADER --><\/p>\n<div id=\"ja-headerwrap\">\n<div id=\"ja-header\">\n<h1>ERGUN KIRLIKOVALI<\/h1>\n<h1><\/h1>\n<div><span>Thursday<\/span><\/p>\n<div>Oct 08th<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><!-- END: HEADER --> <!-- BEGIN: CONTENT --><script type=\"text\/javascript\">\/\/ <![CDATA[\n\t\t\t\t\tvar script = document.createElement(\"script\");\n\t\t\t\t\tscript.setAttribute(\"type\", \"text\/javascript\");\t\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\tif(!window.MooTools){\t\t\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\tscript.setAttribute(\"src\", \"http:\/\/www.historyoftruth.com\/mambots\/content\/ja_tabs\/mootools.js\");\n\t\t\t\t\t\tdocument.getElementsByTagName(\"head\")[0].appendChild(script);\n\t\t\t\t\t}\n\n\t\t\t\t\tscript.setAttribute(\"src\", \"http:\/\/www.historyoftruth.com\/mambots\/content\/ja_tabs\/ja_tabs.js\");\n\t\t\t\t\tdocument.getElementsByTagName(\"head\")[0].appendChild(script);\n\/\/ ]]><\/script><\/p>\n<table border=\"0\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td width=\"100%\"><\/td>\n<td width=\"100%\" align=\"right\">\n<\/td>\n<td width=\"100%\" align=\"right\">\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<table border=\"0\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td colspan=\"2\" valign=\"top\">Thursday, 08 October 2009<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td colspan=\"2\" valign=\"top\">Adressing to\u00a0MEPs during the \u201cGenocide Conference\u201d in\u00a0EP,\u00a0member of\u00a0the European Parliament and rapporteur on\u00a0EU-\u00a0Enlargement, German Christian Democrat Elmar Brok called European Union to\u00a0press Turkey for recognition of\u00a0so\u00a0called Armenian genocide. \u201cTo\u00a0accept its past and to\u00a0take a\u00a0lesson from the past is\u00a0one of\u00a0the principles that EU\u00a0is\u00a0established on.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Making a\u00a0speech in\u00a0the conference that is\u00a0supported by\u00a0Jewish community and French IBUKA organization, Brok said that European Union is\u00a0established on\u00a0ethic values. \u201cWe\u00a0cannot make progress if\u00a0we\u00a0deny the past. Before anything else, I\u00a0want to\u00a0thank you for reacting to\u00a0a\u00a0catastrophe that took place in\u00a0the begining of\u00a020th century,\u201d said\u00a0he.<\/p>\n<p>Brok said, \u201cHistory is\u00a0a\u00a0part of\u00a0our identity and we\u00a0cannot question it.\u00a0Another piece of\u00a0this humanly virtue is\u00a0to\u00a0take the responsibility of\u00a0the things we\u00a0did to\u00a0other people. European Union should press Turkey for recognition of\u00a0\u2019genocide\u2019. To\u00a0accept its past and to\u00a0take a\u00a0lesson from the past is\u00a0one of\u00a0the principles that EU\u00a0is\u00a0established on.\u00a0We\u00a0cannot accept \u2019denial\u2019 as\u00a0responsible Europeans.\u201d<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ERGUN KIRLIKOVALI Thursday Oct 08th Thursday, 08 October 2009 Adressing to\u00a0MEPs during the \u201cGenocide Conference\u201d in\u00a0EP,\u00a0member of\u00a0the European Parliament and rapporteur on\u00a0EU-\u00a0Enlargement, German Christian Democrat Elmar Brok called European Union to\u00a0press Turkey for recognition of\u00a0so\u00a0called Armenian genocide. \u201cTo\u00a0accept its past and to\u00a0take a\u00a0lesson from the past is\u00a0one of\u00a0the principles that EU\u00a0is\u00a0established on.\u201d Making a\u00a0speech in\u00a0the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":83,"featured_media":782298,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[464],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15248","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-ergun-kirlikovali"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15248","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/83"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15248"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15248\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/782298"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15248"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15248"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15248"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}