The European Parliament on Wednesday urged Turkey to recognize the Armenian genocide in the Ottoman Empire and unconditionally normalize relations with Armenia, in a resolution dedicated to the approaching 100th anniversary of the mass killings.
The resolution strongly condemned by Ankara "pays tribute the memory of the one-and-a-half million innocent Armenian victims who perished in the Ottoman Empire." It says that the European Union's legislative body "joins the commemoration of the centenary of the Armenian Genocide in a spirit of European solidarity and justice" and calls on the EU's executive bodies to follow suit.
The European Parliament stressed that Turkish-Armenian reconciliation is impossible without "truth and remembrance." Accordingly, it urged Turkey "to come to terms with its past, to recognize the Armenian Genocide and thus to pave the way for a genuine reconciliation between the Turkish and Armenian peoples."
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