Turkey must recognize Armenian Genocide to become EU member: Geoffrey Robertson

YEREVAN, MARCH 18, ARMENPRESS. The prominent TV anchor Charlie Rose had a conversation with Geoffrey Robertson, a distinguished British barrister. He is currently part of the legal team representing Armenia at the European Court of Human Rights on Dogu Perincek’s case.

As reports “Armenpress” citing ANCA, his latest book is An Inconvenient Genocide: Who Remembers the Armenians? In recent years, he has been particularly prominent in the defense of Julian Assange and WikiLeaks. He has also represented author Salman Rushdie, and prosecuted General Augusto Pinochet. In 2008, he was appointed by United Nations (UN) Secretary General Ban Ki-moon as a “distinguished jurist” member of the UN’s Justice Council, which nominates and supervises UN judges. His memoir, The Justice Game, has sold over 150,000 copies.

From March 13th to 15th, Mr. Robertson was in New York City headlining the "Responsibility 2015: Armenian Genocide Centennial Conference, a three day spotlight on the state of Armenian Genocide scholarship, genocide education, building solidarity, individual and group reparations, genocide denial, transitional justice, gender and mass violence, Islamized Armenians, and the Armenian Genocide in policy circles.