Turkey worried by verdict of International Court for Serbia

PanARMENIAN.Net - "Serbia's acquittal on genocide charges stemming from the Srebrenica massacre might have upset the Bosnian families of the victims, but it also raised questions in Turkey: Can the decision, which found Serbia only at fault for failing to punish those who carried out the killings, provide an example for the ongoing Armenian Genocide debates?" Hurriyet analyst Olter Turan thinks despite the fact that the court acquitted Serbia of the massacre of more than 7,000 Muslim men and boys in the UN-protected Srebrenica enclave in 1992-1995, termed the massacre genocide anyway. "So issues of compensation will arise inevitably," he says.



"Even if we assume that the Ottoman Empire is cleared of genocide charges, the responsibility issue will come up," he continued, noting the ICJ ruling that Serbia should have acted to prevent the genocide.



"The same thing might happen to Turkey," he said. "The only legal shield Turkey has on the issue is to accept the issue as a past event, he said over the phone. Still, this cannot assure that the court will have a similar decision for Turkey," he resumed, reports the Turkish Daily News.