LONDON (CÝHAN) - Representatives of the Committee for the Protection of Turkish Rights met with Plaid Cymru Party Deputy and leader of the Welsh House of Commons, Elfyn Llwyd in response to a local council resolution which officially recognized an Armenian Genocide.
Representatives of The Committee for the Protection of Turkish Rights including Haluk Savas, Günay Aydin and N.Fatih Sener visited House deputies.
The committee first met with Plaid Cymru Party Deputy and leader of the House of Commons, Elfyn Llwyd who stated that the attempts of the district council of Gweynedd would injure the amity between Turkey and Wales.
Dafydd Iwan the Chairman of a parliamentary group of Plaid Cymru had presented a bill to the Welsh Gwynedd District Council, and the bill was passed on March 4, 2004. The bill demands the recognition of an Armenian genocide.
The bill claims that more than 1.5 million Armenians were killed in Eastern Anatolia during World War I by the Ottoman Empire. The bill also includes the statements, "If the Turkish government does not officially recognize the Armenian Genocide, Turkey's European Union membership should not be supported by the English Parliament nor by the regional Welsh Parliament." The bill also called on other Welsh district parliaments to recognize so-called genocide.
Llwyd claims he wasn't informed of the proposal which was supported by local representatives of his party at the city council of Gweynedd. He declared that he understood Turkey's concerns and added that he would propose to officially include Turkey's views against "The Armenian Genocide Proposal".
A similar motion which would recognize an Armenian genocide was recently presented to the English House of Commons by Labour Party member Jeremy Corbyn.