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TURKEY ISSUES DIPLOMATIC NOTE TO FRANCE OVER GENOCIDE INITIATIVE
armradio.am
05.09.2012 13:24
Turkey has issued a diplomatic note to France over its move to include
the Armenian Genocide in history and geography books used in French
secondary schools, Today's Zaman reported.
Turkey's embassy in Paris issued a diplomatic note in the form
of official letters to the French Foreign Ministry and Education
Ministry to protest the inclusion in French textbooks of a two-page
section that details mass killings of Armenians in 1915 using what
the embassy says are "fake documents."
Ankara demanded in the letters that the French authorities revise the
data provided in the textbooks. The Turkish Embassy stressed in the
letters that French citizens of Turkish descent will be negatively
affected by the inclusion of the section.
The section in the French textbook uses a book by Aram Andonian,
an ethnic Armenian from Istanbul, titled "The Memoirs of Naim Bey:
Turkish Official Documents Relating to the Deportation and the
Massacres of Armenians," which is also known as the "Talat Pasha
telegrams" and was originally published in 1920.
armradio.am
05.09.2012 13:24
Turkey has issued a diplomatic note to France over its move to include
the Armenian Genocide in history and geography books used in French
secondary schools, Today's Zaman reported.
Turkey's embassy in Paris issued a diplomatic note in the form
of official letters to the French Foreign Ministry and Education
Ministry to protest the inclusion in French textbooks of a two-page
section that details mass killings of Armenians in 1915 using what
the embassy says are "fake documents."
Ankara demanded in the letters that the French authorities revise the
data provided in the textbooks. The Turkish Embassy stressed in the
letters that French citizens of Turkish descent will be negatively
affected by the inclusion of the section.
The section in the French textbook uses a book by Aram Andonian,
an ethnic Armenian from Istanbul, titled "The Memoirs of Naim Bey:
Turkish Official Documents Relating to the Deportation and the
Massacres of Armenians," which is also known as the "Talat Pasha
telegrams" and was originally published in 1920.