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    GERMAN NOBEL PRIZE-WINNER GUENTER GRASS URGING TURKEY RECOGNIZE ARMENIAN GENOCIDE

    Tert.am
    15.04.10

    German Nobel Prize-winning author Guenter Grass urged Turkey on
    Wednesday to acknowledge the Armenian Genocide perpetrated in the
    waning days of the Ottoman Empire.

    Speaking while on a visit to Istanbul, Grass said such recognition
    would be the most important step which Turkey could take in the
    direction of joining European Union.

    He also recalled German Chancellor Willy Brand who had apologized
    Polish people in 1970 for the Holocaust, urging Turkey that it is
    high time that Turkish authorities follow suit and apologize the
    Armenians living in Armenia and in Turkey.

    "Acknowledgment is not easy. But Germany did it. When will the
    moment arrive that the crime of the genocide of the Armenians in
    1915-1916 will be recognized as fact?" he asked, adding: "I hope it
    will be soon."

    Grass's remarks come as the latest in the ongoing controversy over
    Turkey's official stance regarding the Armenian Genocide when upwards
    of 1.5 million Armenians were killed and more than 500 were deported.

    Turkey, while acknowledging the deaths of Armenians under the then
    Ottoman empire, vehemently rejects claims of genocide.
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