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Anadolu Agency, Turkey
Oct 1 2011
Turkey deplores French presidential candidate over Armenian issue
Paris, 1 October: Turkey has harshly reacted to French Socialist
presidential candidate Francois Hollande who promised Armenian
diaspora to bring a draft about the incidents of 1915 back to the
agenda of the Senate.
Turkish Ambassador in Paris Tahsin Burcuoglu sent a letter to Hollande
and expressed Turkey's harsh reaction.
In his letter, Burcuoglu said that the enactment of the draft, which
envisaged to consider denial of 1915 incidents as a crime, would badly
affect Turkey-France relations.
Burcuoglu said that the draft had already caused a serious uneasiness
in Turkish public opinion.
If enacted, it will cause a serious damage in the bilateral relations, he said.
The Turkish diplomat referred to view of French intellectuals and of a
French parliamentary inquiry commission that history was written by
historians, not by politicians.
Lately, Hollande met representatives from Armenian associations in
Alfortville, 7.5 km from the centre of Paris. He promised to bring the
draft back to the agenda of the Senate.
Earlier, French Senate rejected to debate the draft.
Oct 1 2011
Turkey deplores French presidential candidate over Armenian issue
Paris, 1 October: Turkey has harshly reacted to French Socialist
presidential candidate Francois Hollande who promised Armenian
diaspora to bring a draft about the incidents of 1915 back to the
agenda of the Senate.
Turkish Ambassador in Paris Tahsin Burcuoglu sent a letter to Hollande
and expressed Turkey's harsh reaction.
In his letter, Burcuoglu said that the enactment of the draft, which
envisaged to consider denial of 1915 incidents as a crime, would badly
affect Turkey-France relations.
Burcuoglu said that the draft had already caused a serious uneasiness
in Turkish public opinion.
If enacted, it will cause a serious damage in the bilateral relations, he said.
The Turkish diplomat referred to view of French intellectuals and of a
French parliamentary inquiry commission that history was written by
historians, not by politicians.
Lately, Hollande met representatives from Armenian associations in
Alfortville, 7.5 km from the centre of Paris. He promised to bring the
draft back to the agenda of the Senate.
Earlier, French Senate rejected to debate the draft.