Minority safety should be prioritised by EU foreign ministers

Safe havens for Christian and other minorities in the Middle East should be a foreign policy priority for the EU and Ireland, writes Rónán Mullen

THIS year marks the 100th anniversary of the world’s first modern genocide — the mass murder of Armenian Christians and other minorities by the Turkish Ottoman government begun in 1915.

“Who, after all, remembers the annihilation of the Armenians?” Adolf Hitler wrote in a 1939 memo to his generals, justifying his case for mass slaughter. Modern Turkey refuses to acknowledge the genocide, but that famous quote has left posterity in no doubt.