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BAGIS REMINDS FRANCE OF ITS NATIONAL MOTTO
Turkish Press
Aug 28 2012
Turkey's EU Minister and Chief Negotiator Egemen Bagis has strongly
criticized the introduction of the alleged Armenian genocide into
history textbooks in France.
Speaking at a ceremony organized by the Turkish Cooperation and
Coordination Agency (TIKA) for the TIKA Academy and Internship Program
in Ankara, Bagis urged France to reexamine its understanding of their
own national motto based on the worthy precepts of liberty, equality
and fraternity.
"I hope they will soon realize this mistake and correct it," Bagis
said, adding, "Turkey does not know what genocide is. Turkey knows
the phrase 'peace at home, peace in the world,' as the founder of
our republic [Mustafa Kemal] Ataturk said. We try to provide peace
all around the world; we try to give love. There was no colonial
system in the places where we had been before. There had always been
prosperity and tolerance the places that we went. Instead of placing
nonsensical information in their school books, we advise the French
not to redefine their understanding of liberte (liberty), egalite
(equality) and fraternite (fraternity). We also advise them to end
the conflict between Azerbaijan and Armenia as the co-chair of the
Minsk Group. We hope that Turkey will be a means for the European
Union to get out of the mental abyss it has fallen into."
From: Baghdasarian
Turkish Press
Aug 28 2012
Turkey's EU Minister and Chief Negotiator Egemen Bagis has strongly
criticized the introduction of the alleged Armenian genocide into
history textbooks in France.
Speaking at a ceremony organized by the Turkish Cooperation and
Coordination Agency (TIKA) for the TIKA Academy and Internship Program
in Ankara, Bagis urged France to reexamine its understanding of their
own national motto based on the worthy precepts of liberty, equality
and fraternity.
"I hope they will soon realize this mistake and correct it," Bagis
said, adding, "Turkey does not know what genocide is. Turkey knows
the phrase 'peace at home, peace in the world,' as the founder of
our republic [Mustafa Kemal] Ataturk said. We try to provide peace
all around the world; we try to give love. There was no colonial
system in the places where we had been before. There had always been
prosperity and tolerance the places that we went. Instead of placing
nonsensical information in their school books, we advise the French
not to redefine their understanding of liberte (liberty), egalite
(equality) and fraternite (fraternity). We also advise them to end
the conflict between Azerbaijan and Armenia as the co-chair of the
Minsk Group. We hope that Turkey will be a means for the European
Union to get out of the mental abyss it has fallen into."
From: Baghdasarian