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TURKISH MINISTER SAYS ARMENIAN GENOCIDE'S HISTORICITY NOT CONDITIONED ON OBAMA'S APRIL 24 STATEMENT
news.am
February 20, 2012 | 11:31
In a television interview, Turkey's Minister for EU Affairs,
Egemen Bagis, reflected on the investigation launched against him in
Switzerland, the French Senate's passing of the bill that criminalizes
the denial of genocides-including the Armenian Genocide-, and the
US President's upcoming April 24 statement on the commemoration of
the Genocide.
Bagis again criticized French President Nicolas Sarkozy for the
aforesaid bill, and stressed that this draft law must return from the
French Constitutional Council, Anadolu News Agency of Turkey informs.
In connection with the investigation launched in Switzerland for his
denial of the Armenian Genocide while he was in that country, Turkey's
Minister for EU Affairs noted that a preliminary investigation is
underway, and that he can he can go to Switzerland without problems,
since anyone would hardly arrest a Turkish minister.
And Commenting on US President Barack Obama's April 24 statement,
Egemen Bagis said: "What will happen if he says, or does not say,
'genocide?' If someone says genocide, then it is genocide, and if he
does not say genocide, then it is not genocide?"
Bagis noted that the world's largest archives on 1915 are in Boston,
and that solely the Armenians are able to study them.
From: Baghdasarian
news.am
February 20, 2012 | 11:31
In a television interview, Turkey's Minister for EU Affairs,
Egemen Bagis, reflected on the investigation launched against him in
Switzerland, the French Senate's passing of the bill that criminalizes
the denial of genocides-including the Armenian Genocide-, and the
US President's upcoming April 24 statement on the commemoration of
the Genocide.
Bagis again criticized French President Nicolas Sarkozy for the
aforesaid bill, and stressed that this draft law must return from the
French Constitutional Council, Anadolu News Agency of Turkey informs.
In connection with the investigation launched in Switzerland for his
denial of the Armenian Genocide while he was in that country, Turkey's
Minister for EU Affairs noted that a preliminary investigation is
underway, and that he can he can go to Switzerland without problems,
since anyone would hardly arrest a Turkish minister.
And Commenting on US President Barack Obama's April 24 statement,
Egemen Bagis said: "What will happen if he says, or does not say,
'genocide?' If someone says genocide, then it is genocide, and if he
does not say genocide, then it is not genocide?"
Bagis noted that the world's largest archives on 1915 are in Boston,
and that solely the Armenians are able to study them.
From: Baghdasarian