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7 June 2008 - 09:49 AMT

Egbert Jahn: Armenian Genocide debate may fade after Turkey joins EU

Central and Eastern Europe suffered from both Nazi and Communists, a German professor said.

Political programs of mass annihilation may be named not genocide but policide, professor Egbert Jahn said in his speech during “Fall of the Berlin Wall: from Budapest to Vilnius” international conference in Warsaw.

The Armenian Genocide perpetrated by Young Turks in 1915 may be interpreted in a similar way. But the Genocide debate may subside after Turkey joins the European Union,” he said, DELFI Baltic states’ portal reports.