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Kasparov: Jewish
organizations’
opposition to Genocide
recognition is “a policy
of double standards”
“You can’t talk about the Holocaust
and deny the Armenian Genocide
in Turkey,” leader of the Russian
opposition United Civil Front Garry
Kasparov said in a response to
a question about reports that some
Jewish organizations, like the ADL,
oppose Congressional affirmation
of the Genocide. Mr. Kasparov told
National Public Radio’s “On Point”
program on May 2 that he has “no
doubt that Turkey will have to
recognize the Genocide if it wants
to join the European Union and I
don’t think there is any other way
but for Turkey to recognize these
horrible massacres of 1915.”
“And if there are activities of
[Jewish groups] supporting Turkey
in their attempt to stifle the recognition
of the Genocide, then it is
of course another policy of double
standards. And that I reject most
of all.”
Mr. Kasparov, who is of Armenian
and Jewish descent, was
forced to flee Baku during anti-
Armenian
pogroms there in January
1990. The longest-reining world
chess champion (1985–2000) made
it on the Time magazine’s 2007 list
of “100 People Who Shape Our
World.” Time cited Kasparov’s political
activism in opposition to
organizations’
opposition to Genocide
recognition is “a policy
of double standards”
“You can’t talk about the Holocaust
and deny the Armenian Genocide
in Turkey,” leader of the Russian
opposition United Civil Front Garry
Kasparov said in a response to
a question about reports that some
Jewish organizations, like the ADL,
oppose Congressional affirmation
of the Genocide. Mr. Kasparov told
National Public Radio’s “On Point”
program on May 2 that he has “no
doubt that Turkey will have to
recognize the Genocide if it wants
to join the European Union and I
don’t think there is any other way
but for Turkey to recognize these
horrible massacres of 1915.”
“And if there are activities of
[Jewish groups] supporting Turkey
in their attempt to stifle the recognition
of the Genocide, then it is
of course another policy of double
standards. And that I reject most
of all.”
Mr. Kasparov, who is of Armenian
and Jewish descent, was
forced to flee Baku during anti-
Armenian
pogroms there in January
1990. The longest-reining world
chess champion (1985–2000) made
it on the Time magazine’s 2007 list
of “100 People Who Shape Our
World.” Time cited Kasparov’s political
activism in opposition to