Swiss foreign minister has urged Turkish and Armenian historians to investigate events earlier last century that have been primary cause of tensions between the two nations for decades. Micheline Calmy-Rey, who is also the president of the Swiss Confederation, told Turkish ambassadors in her keynote speech at Ambassadors Conference in Ankara on Monday that historians [...]
Among the most followednews today are the updates onthe gradual severing of Franco-Turkish ties. On December 22, the French National Assembly adopted a bill criminalizing the denial of the “Armenian genocide.” The bill proposes to establish a fine of €45,000 and a punishment of up to one year in jail for denying that what happened [...]
Interview with Ergun Kirlikovali, president-elect of the Assembly of Turkish-American Associations and co-founder of the Pax Turcica Institute. Q: How will the adoption of the bill on ‘Armenian genocide’ in the lower chamber of the French parliament influence the Turkish-French relations? A: I am afraid there will be a wide range of reactions including but [...]
Turkey’s European Union (EU) minister and chief negotiator defined on Friday the French resolution criminalizing denial of Armenian allegations regarding incidents of 1915 as a racist, discriminative and xenophobic decision. Egemen Bagis interviewed with Italy’s La Repubblica newspaper, and said that French President Nicolas Sarkozy was against Turkey’s EU membership, and he backed the resolution [...]
Turkish citizens are staging protests against a resolution on Armenian allegations which will be voted at French Parliament on Thursday. Today, French Parliament will vote a resolution criminalizing the rejection of Armenian allegations pertaining to the incidents of 1915. The resolution envisages “one-year prison term and 45,000 Euro fine for those who deny genocide recognized [...]