In the run-up to the election , Johan Vande Lanotte , leader of the Socialist Party – Different , refused to acknowledge the Turkish genocide on its Armenian minority in the midst of a controversy about the strong allegiance to Turkey expressed in Turkish at a meeting by a Turkish-Belgian CD&V Senate candidate , Ergün Top , but also in the aftermath of a similar problem aroused during the campaign for the Dutch general election a few months earlier . The position of Yves Leterme ( CD&V ) on this issue was unclear at first , but he later confided to the Flemish parliament that he does acknowledge the Armenian Genocide
Turkish genocide on its Armenian minority
Armenian Genocide
2007 Belgian federal election