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Turkey to revise its diaspora concept: FM
ANKARA - Hürriyet Daily News
Ahmet DavutoÄ?lu says Turkish officials will have face-to-face talks
with anyone who migrated from Anatolia. DAILY NEWS photo
Sevil KüçükkoÅ?um
sevil.küçü[email protected]
Turkey renews its rhetoric that it applied within its action plan
against Armenian initiatives on the incidents of 1915. Ankara
constitutes its action plan on raising awareness in the international
arena on overall incidents of the World War I-era in a way that
includes what all Ottoman people suffered.
Turkey would change its `concept of diaspora,' Foreign Minister Ahmet
DavutoÄ?lu said. Turkish officials would have face to face talks on
joint history with anyone who migrated from Anatolia from whichever
religion or sect they were, including Armenians, Greeks and Jews, he
said. `They are our diasporas.' Turkey would tell how France and some
colonialists had set `riot between us' in that era, he said.
Turkey's short-term action plan against Armenian resolutions and
long-term plans for the upcoming 100th year of the alleged Armenian
`genocide' will be an issue during the meetings of Turkish
ambassadors, who gathered in Ankara to review Turkey's foreign policy,
a diplomatic source told Hürriyet Daily News Dec. 23. Ankara
was also concerned with Armenian initiatives in the U.S. because of
the upcoming presidential elections in that country. Ankara would
raise its voice against the bill `all around the world,'
DavutoÄ?lu said, adding that Turkey would decide whether to
`sharpen or ease' measures against France according to Paris'
attitude.
Parliament scraps friendship group
In a related development, Parliament Speaker Cemil �içek said
yesterday that the adoption of the denial bill had made the France
friendship group in Parliament redundant and announced that its
350-odd members had begun resigning. �içek said the stance of French
Parliament was `biased, hostile and poisonous' for bilateral
relations. `Maintaining friendly relations with such a country has
become meaningless and unnecessary. There will be no France friendship
group until they make up for their decision,' �içek said, stressing
that the stance of the Senate, the next legislative stage for the
bill, would be crucial. The overwhelming majority of the group's
members belonged to the ruling Justice and Development Party (AKP).
December/24/2011
ANKARA - Hürriyet Daily News
Ahmet DavutoÄ?lu says Turkish officials will have face-to-face talks
with anyone who migrated from Anatolia. DAILY NEWS photo
Sevil KüçükkoÅ?um
sevil.küçü[email protected]
Turkey renews its rhetoric that it applied within its action plan
against Armenian initiatives on the incidents of 1915. Ankara
constitutes its action plan on raising awareness in the international
arena on overall incidents of the World War I-era in a way that
includes what all Ottoman people suffered.
Turkey would change its `concept of diaspora,' Foreign Minister Ahmet
DavutoÄ?lu said. Turkish officials would have face to face talks on
joint history with anyone who migrated from Anatolia from whichever
religion or sect they were, including Armenians, Greeks and Jews, he
said. `They are our diasporas.' Turkey would tell how France and some
colonialists had set `riot between us' in that era, he said.
Turkey's short-term action plan against Armenian resolutions and
long-term plans for the upcoming 100th year of the alleged Armenian
`genocide' will be an issue during the meetings of Turkish
ambassadors, who gathered in Ankara to review Turkey's foreign policy,
a diplomatic source told Hürriyet Daily News Dec. 23. Ankara
was also concerned with Armenian initiatives in the U.S. because of
the upcoming presidential elections in that country. Ankara would
raise its voice against the bill `all around the world,'
DavutoÄ?lu said, adding that Turkey would decide whether to
`sharpen or ease' measures against France according to Paris'
attitude.
Parliament scraps friendship group
In a related development, Parliament Speaker Cemil �içek said
yesterday that the adoption of the denial bill had made the France
friendship group in Parliament redundant and announced that its
350-odd members had begun resigning. �içek said the stance of French
Parliament was `biased, hostile and poisonous' for bilateral
relations. `Maintaining friendly relations with such a country has
become meaningless and unnecessary. There will be no France friendship
group until they make up for their decision,' �içek said, stressing
that the stance of the Senate, the next legislative stage for the
bill, would be crucial. The overwhelming majority of the group's
members belonged to the ruling Justice and Development Party (AKP).
December/24/2011