Without historical memory, the past is all too easy to repeat - MEP Yannis Maniatis

Member of the European Parliament Yannis Maniatis has released a statement on the occasion of the 110th anniversary of the Armenian Genocide, emphasizing that without historical memory, history is easily repeated.

“Turkey must acknowledge the crimes of its past. The Armenian, Assyrian, and Greek populations of Asia Minor and Pontus were victims of a systematic and centrally organized extermination campaign.

Thousands of Armenians in Nagorno-Karabakh were forced to leave their homes, religious and cultural monuments were destroyed.

Without historical memory, the past is all too easy to repeat,” he stated.