JERUSALEM (EJP)---When he signed the guest book of the Yad Vashem Holocaust Museum in Jerusalem during his visit earlier this week, Turkish Foreign Minister Ali Babacan wrote:

“This museum reminds us all the heart-breaking memories of the Holocaust. We must learn lessons from the Holocaust; the way the evil took hold, the insidious appeal of its ideology, co-option of many apparently respectable people.

If we understand the danger of fight against evil doctrines, to scapegoat, despise and dehumanize any religion and people, our children will certainly live in a better world. Genocide, ethnic cleansing, racism, anti-Semitism, Islam-phobia, Christian-phobia, xenophobia, all historical yet contemporary evils that the international community shares a solemn responsibility to combat.

On behalf of the Turkish people and the Turkish Government, I want to express our reverence for the victims of the immeasurable evil. Blessed be their memory."