{"id":12601,"date":"2017-06-20T11:40:22","date_gmt":"2017-06-20T11:40:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ancnews.info\/?p=12601"},"modified":"2017-06-20T11:40:22","modified_gmt":"2017-06-20T11:40:22","slug":"european-parliament-resolution-calls-on-turkey-to-protect-cultural-heritage-and-have-good-neighborly-relations-with-armenia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ancnews.info\/?p=12601","title":{"rendered":"European Parliament Resolution Calls on Turkey to Protect Cultural Heritage and Have Good Neighborly Relations with Armenia"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">(ARMENIAN WEEKLY) BRUSSELS, Belgium\u2014The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/European.Armenian.Federation\/\">European Armenian Federation for Justice and Democracy<\/a> (EAFJD) welcomed <a href=\"http:\/\/armenianweekly.com\/2017\/06\/20\/ep-committee-suspension-turkeys-eu-accession\/\">today\u2019s vote<\/a> in the European Parliament\u2019s Foreign Affairs Committee on the draft report on the 2016 Commission Report on Turkey. <!--more Continue reading \/ \u0531\u0574\u0562\u0578\u0572\u057b\u0568 \u2192--><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\u201cToday\u2019s vote didn\u2019t come as a surprise to us, and we are glad to see that the Foreign Affairs Committee is united in defending Universal Human Rights values in Turkey and condemning Turkish President Erdogan\u2019s destructive policies, both domestically and internationally,\u201d EAFJD President Kaspar Karampetian told the Armenian Weekly. \u201cIt\u2019s the right thing to do to call for the halt of EU accession talks, should Erdogan acquire more powers with the proposed constitutional changes,\u201d Karampetian added.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Committee MEPs harshly condemned Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan and his autocratic regime, which has polarized the Turkish society and alienated neighbors and allies. The main message to Erdogan and the ruling Justice and Development Party of Turkey (AKP) was that Turkey\u2019s EU accession talks should be suspended if the proposed changes to the constitution go ahead.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The resolution on Turkey was adopted by 51 votes to three, with 14 abstentions. The full House is scheduled to vote on it during the next plenary session in Strasbourg in July.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">One of the amendments calls on the Turkish government to respect and fully implement the legal obligations, which it has undertaken relating to the protection of cultural heritage, and in particular to conduct in good faith an integrated inventory of Greek, Armenian, Assyrian, and other cultural heritage that was destroyed or ruined during the last century.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">It also calls on Turkey to ratify the 2005 UNESCO Convention on the Protection and Promotion of the Diversity of Cultural Expressions and to cooperate with relevant international organizations, especially the Council of Europe, in preventing and combating illicit trafficking and the deliberate destruction of cultural heritage.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Another amendment calls on Turkey and Armenia to work on the normalization of their relations and stresses that the opening of the Turkish-Armenian border could lead to improved relations, with particular reference to cross-border cooperation and economic integration.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\u201cWe are also glad to see that amendments calling on Turkey to have good neighborly relations with its immediate surrounding countries and open its closed borders, as well as to respect and fully implement the legal obligations which it has undertaken relating to the protection of minorities\u2019 cultural heritage, and particularly the inclusion in the references to the Armenian Genocide centenary resolution of April 2015\u2033 added Karampetian. The EAFDJ President also noted that the organizations is looking forward to seeing the resolution adopted in July, with the same spirit that was discussed in the Foreign Affairs Committee\u201d.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(ARMENIAN WEEKLY) BRUSSELS, Belgium\u2014The European Armenian Federation for Justice and Democracy (EAFJD) welcomed today\u2019s vote in the European Parliament\u2019s Foreign Affairs Committee on the draft report on the 2016 Commission Report on Turkey.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":12603,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[115],"tags":[143],"class_list":["post-12601","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-european-armenian-federation-eafjd"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.8 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>European Parliament Resolution Calls on Turkey to Protect Cultural Heritage and Have Good Neighborly Relations with Armenia - 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