April 28, 2005 - 14:30 AMT
TURKEY SHOULD RESIGN TO PAST, POLISH POLITICIANS CONSIDER
Polish politicians did not take seriously Turkey's negative reaction caused by the adoption of the resolution on the Armenian Genocide by the Polish Sejm, Gazeta Wyborcza reported. Polish Foreign Minister Adam Rotfeld assured his Turkish colleague Abdullah Gul that the resolution is the moral condemnation of the events of 1915 but not a political assessment of Turkey's activities. "Turkey extremely nervously reacted to the adoption of the resolution on Genocide by the Polish Sejm", Civic Platform party leader Bronislaw Komorowski noted. "Ankara bids for the EU and is obliged to have normal relations with Poland. No crime of the past can be forgotten and Turkey should resign to its past", he said. In his turn deputy chairman of the commission for foreign affairs Tadeus Iwinski rated Turkey's reaction as disappointing and at the same time expressed hope that the Polish-Turkish age-old relations will not worsen due to discrepancies available on the issue.