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TURKEY'S PM REBUFFS SARKOZY OVER ARMENIA REMARKS
www.worldbulletin.net, Turkey
Oct 11 2011
Premier Recep Tayyip Erdogan, also the chairman of the ruling Justice &
Development (AK) Party, delivered a speech at his party's parliamentary
group meeting.
Turkey's prime minister said on Tuesday that the aim of the remarks
French President Nicolas Sarkozy had made over 1915 incidents was to
gain votes in the presidential election (set to be held in 2012).
Premier Recep Tayyip Erdogan, also the chairman of the ruling Justice &
Development (AK) Party, delivered a speech at his party's parliamentary
group meeting.
Erdogan said, "the French president gave some advice to Turkey in a
move to invest in the elections. You (Sarkozy) should make such an
advice to yourself at first."
"There cannot be a political leader with so many faces. Politics
requires honesty." he said.
"There are nearly 600,000 Armenians and 500,000 Turks in France. The
two countries have relations," he said.
A statesman must act by considering next generations not upcoming
elections, Erdogan said.
Sarkozy drew a strong negative reaction from Turkey when he said last
Thursday in a short trip to Armenia that Turkey should recognize the
1915 incidents as genocide, threatening to pass a law in France that
would make denying this a crime.
Turkey rejects the term and denies that up to 1.5 million Armenians
died. It says many Muslim Turks and Kurds, as well as Christian
Armenians, were killed in inter-communal violence as Russian forces
invaded eastern Anatolia during World War One.
From: A. Papazian
www.worldbulletin.net, Turkey
Oct 11 2011
Premier Recep Tayyip Erdogan, also the chairman of the ruling Justice &
Development (AK) Party, delivered a speech at his party's parliamentary
group meeting.
Turkey's prime minister said on Tuesday that the aim of the remarks
French President Nicolas Sarkozy had made over 1915 incidents was to
gain votes in the presidential election (set to be held in 2012).
Premier Recep Tayyip Erdogan, also the chairman of the ruling Justice &
Development (AK) Party, delivered a speech at his party's parliamentary
group meeting.
Erdogan said, "the French president gave some advice to Turkey in a
move to invest in the elections. You (Sarkozy) should make such an
advice to yourself at first."
"There cannot be a political leader with so many faces. Politics
requires honesty." he said.
"There are nearly 600,000 Armenians and 500,000 Turks in France. The
two countries have relations," he said.
A statesman must act by considering next generations not upcoming
elections, Erdogan said.
Sarkozy drew a strong negative reaction from Turkey when he said last
Thursday in a short trip to Armenia that Turkey should recognize the
1915 incidents as genocide, threatening to pass a law in France that
would make denying this a crime.
Turkey rejects the term and denies that up to 1.5 million Armenians
died. It says many Muslim Turks and Kurds, as well as Christian
Armenians, were killed in inter-communal violence as Russian forces
invaded eastern Anatolia during World War One.
From: A. Papazian