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Thirty thousand Kurds and 1 million Armenians were killed in these lands and nobody but me dares to talk about it,

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I think perhaps it is a generational thing,

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I repeat, I said loud and clear that 1 million Armenians and 30,000 Kurds were killed in Turkey, and I stand by that.

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Thirty-thousand Kurds were killed here, 1 million Armenians as well. And almost no one talks about it, ... Therefore, I do.

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Thirty-thousand Kurds and one million Armenians were killed in these lands and nobody but me dares to talk about it,

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For a country to enter the EU, there has to be full respect of minority rights, freedom of thought and expression. If you drag your feet and make cosmetic changes ... then this won't do. To believe that, you would need to be a child.

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 Country

I think perhaps it is a generational thing. I talk to younger people and they say, 'Where is this melancholy city you talk about? My Istanbul is a sunny place.

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 Melancholy

There is nothing that constitutes a crime in this interview.

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There is no doubt that it will raise questions about the wisdom of Turkey's EU membership bid. How can it possibly claim to be a European country if it has such laws on the books, and if public prosecutors can bring such cases?

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Of course I'm for Turkey joining the EU. But it's too simple to say that will make us all well-off and solve all our problems. Since the referendums in France and the Netherlands, Europe is preoccupied with itself. Various ideas are competing with one another about the character of the Union. Will Europe define itself exclusively through the past ? This is a conservative view and can ultimately be reduced to discussions on agricultural policy and the distribution of funds. This is always the case with short-term politics. But in the long term Europe needs an all-encompassing vision of itself and for that reason I recommend that Turkey joins.

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