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Memorial events include a torchlit march to the genocide museum in Yerevan (Photo: DziDzernagapert)

MEPs to call for EU-wide recognition of Armenia genocide

The European Parliament is to urge Turkey to “come to terms with its past” on the “Armenian Genocide” 100 years after it took place.

The joint text - agreed by parliament groups on Tuesday (14 April) ahead of a vote in Brussels on Wednesday - also calls on “those EU member states that have not yet done so and EU institutions to recognise it”.

It says Turkey should “start a genuinely transparent public debate with a view to recognising the genocide”.

It also says Turkey sh...

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Memorial events include a torchlit march to the genocide museum in Yerevan (Photo: DziDzernagapert)

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