Zaman, Turkey
July 9 2005
'Armenian Genocide' Returns to German Textbooks
By aa
Published: Saturday July 09, 2005
zaman.com
The "Armenian Genocide" has been included in textbooks in the German
province of Brandenbourg's curriculum once again.
A Der Tagesspiegel newspaper report said Armenian allegations,
formerly removed from the curriculum as a consequence of Turkey's
diplomatic initiatives, had been reprinted in supplementary textbooks
by the Brandenbourg Education Ministry.
The report cited Brandenbourg as the only province that included the
allegations in the supplementary consisting of 103 pages and prepared
by the Institute for School and Media (LISUM) in cooperation with the
Institute of Diaspora and Genocide Studies in Ruhr University
recently. According to the article, the said textbook included not
only the Armenian allegations but also deemed the events' as the
first biggest systematic genocide of the 20th century. Der
Tagesspiegel further said the book also dealt with the official view
of the Turkish Embassy in Berlin in that Turks and Armenians both
became victims and committers at the same time.
July 9 2005
'Armenian Genocide' Returns to German Textbooks
By aa
Published: Saturday July 09, 2005
zaman.com
The "Armenian Genocide" has been included in textbooks in the German
province of Brandenbourg's curriculum once again.
A Der Tagesspiegel newspaper report said Armenian allegations,
formerly removed from the curriculum as a consequence of Turkey's
diplomatic initiatives, had been reprinted in supplementary textbooks
by the Brandenbourg Education Ministry.
The report cited Brandenbourg as the only province that included the
allegations in the supplementary consisting of 103 pages and prepared
by the Institute for School and Media (LISUM) in cooperation with the
Institute of Diaspora and Genocide Studies in Ruhr University
recently. According to the article, the said textbook included not
only the Armenian allegations but also deemed the events' as the
first biggest systematic genocide of the 20th century. Der
Tagesspiegel further said the book also dealt with the official view
of the Turkish Embassy in Berlin in that Turks and Armenians both
became victims and committers at the same time.