David Norris (Independent) | Oireachtas source

I do not see how one can have reconciliation if one does not face the truth. In 1915, a total of 1.5 million Armenians were specifically targeted and eliminated. People are now prosecuted within Turkey for arguing that it is a genocide. A German officer was in Turkey during the period of the genocide. Subsequently, in the 1930s he wrote to Hitler to say that if Hitler was not careful, they would find themselves in the same situation of genocide. It seems to me that it is a very cowardly position for Ireland to take, to sit on the fence and not to make the clear decision that this is genocide.