Turkey is ready to face up to its history and open its archives for joint panel of historians to do a historical search on the incidents of 1915 in the Ottoman Empire, the country’s foreign minister has said. “But if that method of facing the truths was denied and dogmas started to come up, then [...]
A new bill criminalizing the “denial” of the unsubstantiated “Armenian genocide” claims was introduced in the French National Assembly with the barely implicit support of Mr. Sarkozy. The co-chairmen of the Coordination Council of France’s Armenian Associations, namely Jean-Marc “Ara” Toranian, former spokesman of the terrorist group ASALA, and Mourad Papazian, unrepentant sympathizer of another [...]
Turkey’s Foreign Minister has blasted France for promulgating a “Middle Ages” mentality ahead of a French Parliament debate on a proposal to criminalize the denial of the “genocide” of Armenians, referring to events that took place in 1915. “If this proposal is legislated, France will pioneer the return of a Middle Ages mindset to Europe,” [...]
Famous French-Armenian musician Charles Aznavour has been criticized for statements he made on television channel France 2 regarding the World War I-era deaths of Armenians in the Ottoman Empire. “A different word should replace ‘genocide’ to reopen the Turkish-Armenian border and to start dialogue with the Turks,” Aznavour said. He also expressed a wish to [...]
The return of “historic territories in Western Armenia” now found in eastern Turkey “depend on younger generations,” Armenian President Serge Sarkisian has said, according to online Armenian news sources. “[Any return] all depends on you and your generation,” Sarkisian said Saturday in response to a question about the area during the Armenian Language Olympics. “I [...]