“CONTROVERSIAL” EXHIBITION IN BRUSSELS
Support A1+!On June 18, the day of the 16th anniversary of approving the first Declaration on Genocide by the European Parliament, the “Armenian Genocide – Alive History” exhibition was staged in the Brussels’ House of International Unions. EP members Jonas Schosted, Lenart Sakredeus, and the Comparing Centre of the Armenian Unions of Sweden initiated it.
The collection of the documentary photos introduced belongs to the Armenian Information and Documentation Centre. It has already been exposed in many European cities.
The exhibition was envisaged to put in EP building, but it was rejected reasoning the “controversial character of the exhibition” . EP executives stated that refusal doesn’t mean that they don’t recognise the 1915’ Armenian Genocide as in 1987 EP approved its first Declaration on the Armenian Genocide, and the photos shown under the present conditions could cause discrepancy .
Complaints on request to review the refusal were sent by Union of Genocide Opponents /Turkish organisation- Frankfurt am Main/, TUDAI- /Turkey-Germany/, etc.
On June 18 the exhibition initiators met EP executives and handed them the petition on Genocide recognition, signed by 10.000 Turkish people residing in Europe.
