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"I have voted in favour of the report.
It is with great satisfaction that I note that Amendment No 12 was rejected. The result of the vote was 391 against, 96 in favour and 15 abstentions. It was aimed at removing the clear and insistent exhortation in paragraph 15, in which the European Parliament ‘reiterates in this respect the position in its resolution of 18 June 1987 recognising the genocide upon Armenians in 1915 and calls upon Turkey to create a basis for reconciliation’.
From having been a core Armenian area up until 1915, the north-eastern part of Turkey has now been almost emptied of all its Armenian population. In the interests of its own future, there is no other way for Turkey to proceed than to acknowledge the genocide and to seek reconciliation with, and provide compensation to, the Armenian population and those in the vicinity of Armenia. Only in that way can Turkey as a country and the Turks as a people avoid being haunted by their own history.
The politicians and people of Turkey have a lot to learn from the way in which Germany and the German people acted following the extermination of the Jews in the Holocaust of the Second World War. I would like to believe that the Turks are prepared to embark upon that path. It is definitely in Turkey’s own interests to endeavour to become a European state based on human rights with full respect for religious freedom and the rights of minorities."@en1
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