Turkish EU minister said that the government of Armenia was not courageous enough to accept Turkey’s offer that archives should be examined by scholars.
Thousands of Turks from across Europe marched through the French capital on Saturday to denounce a bill that would make it a crime to deny that the killing of Armenians by Ottoman Turks nearly a century ago was genocide.
The French Senate is scheduled to vote on Monday on a law that would penalize those who deny genocide, taking another step along a path that has already damaged France’s relations with Turkey.
In an article published on January 19, the Los Angeles Times has said that the “French Senate should reject a bill criminalizing the denial of Armenian allegations pertaining to the incidents of 1915″. Titled “Speech crimes and France” and written by Timothy Garton Ash, a senior fellow at the Hoover Institution at Stanford University and [...]
The resolution on the “Armenian genocide” adopted by the parliament of Sweden – Riksdag two years ago was a wrong and ill-considered step, representatives of the ruling party of Sweden – the Moderate Party said at the meeting with the representatives of the Swedish Azerbaijanis Congress, APA reports. They said that historians should assess the [...]