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  • Mevlut Cavusoglu Wearing Two Hats: Odette Bazil

    MEVLUT CAVUSOGLU WEARING TWO HATS: ODETTE BAZIL

    Panorama.am
    19/05/2010

    Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE )
    President-in-Office Mevlut Cavusoglu broke the diplomatic protocol by
    refusing to visit Tsitsernakaberd, the Memorial to the victims of the
    Armenian Genocide. Such kind of behaviour received condemnations from
    hither and thither. Particularly, the article of the the founder of
    British-Armenian All-Party Parliamentary group, Chair of the Chiltern
    Armenia Society Odette Bazil has been widely spread on the internet.

    It says: "It is unadmissible and is a serious breach of diplomatic
    protocol that Mr Mevlut Casuvoglu , chairman of the PACE, while
    representing PACE on an official visit to Armenia , has taken the
    liberty to act as a Turkish parliamentarian driven by his hatred
    towards the Host Country , rather than a responsible chairman lucky to
    have the rare opportunity to represent such influential and important
    organization. If a Turkish national has been chosen to represent a
    European Organisation ( despite the fact that Turkey is NOT a member
    of the European Union and might never be ) then that person should
    understand his obligation to serve ONLY the organisation he represents
    and not his own personal denialistic feelings."

    "Has Mr Casuvoglu been given the choice to wear his Turkish fez and
    outfit -which comes complete with the yataghan and the bayonet - ,
    has he been made aware of the nature of his mission and has he been
    briefed on the necessity to wear his chairman's hat at such occasion?"

    Odette Bazil asks.

    "The European Parliament has - REPEATEDLY and FORMALLY - recognised
    the veracity of the Armenian genocide and Statements have been
    issued to that effect in 1987, 2000, 2002 and 2005," O. Bazil writes
    highlighting: "By refusing to visit the Memorial Monument erected
    in Armenia to the memory of the one and half million victims of the
    Armenian genocide - a genocide perpetrated by the Ottoman government
    of 1915 and formally recognised by the organisation he represents -
    Mr Casuvoglu has acted FOR Turkey's interest and AGAINST the interests
    and decisions of PACE."

    "Mr Casuvoglu must be recalled and replaced the soonest possible -
    before October when he intends to re-visit and re-insult Armenia -
    and maybe PACE must think now of electing a dozen of chairmans to
    accommodate its every representative's likes and dislikes towards
    the people of the countries where they are being sent," Odette Bazil
    sums up.
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