{"id":46802,"date":"2011-11-18T18:24:49","date_gmt":"2011-11-18T16:24:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/?p=46802"},"modified":"2014-01-06T17:53:40","modified_gmt":"2014-01-06T15:53:40","slug":"france-offers-to-host-turkish-armenian-history-meeting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/2011\/11\/18\/france-offers-to-host-turkish-armenian-history-meeting\/","title":{"rendered":"France offers to host Turkish-Armenian history meeting"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>ANKARA &#8211; Anatolia News Agency<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_46804\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-46804\" style=\"width: 414px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-46804\" title=\"1118134326775-2011-11-18_l\" src=\"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/1118134326775-2011-11-18_l.jpg\" alt=\"French Foreign Minister Alain Juppe speaks during a press conference in Ankara today. AFP photo\" width=\"414\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/1118134326775-2011-11-18_l.jpg 414w, https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/1118134326775-2011-11-18_l-300x217.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 414px) 100vw, 414px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-46804\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">French Foreign Minister Alain Juppe speaks during a press conference in Ankara today. AFP photo<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>France&#8217;s foreign minister today said that his country could host a Turkish-Armenian joint history commission meeting.<\/p>\n<p>Alain Juppe defined the incidents of 1915 as a challenging issue, and all countries were making a memory homework about their history.<\/p>\n<p>Such a memory homework could be done in a history commission, Juppe told a joint press conference with Turkish Foreign Minister Ahmet Davuto\u011flu in Ankara.<\/p>\n<p>Juppe defined those days as a troublesome for both Turkey and Armenia, and said France may host a joint history meeting.<\/p>\n<p>The French foreign minister expressed thought that a significant progress could be made in such a meeting.<\/p>\n<p>Davuto\u011flu, in his part, said Turkey had accepted Juppe&#8217;s call for establishment of a joint history commission to investigate incidents of 1915.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We are ready to discuss our own history and other countries&#8217; history in an atmosphere of mutual respect and freedom,&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n<p>Davuto\u011flu said however, Turkey was against laws and resolutions that would make its self-defense impossible, and noted that there was such a resolution at the French Senate today.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Implementation of this resolution is against French intellectual tradition and freedom of thought,&#8221; Davuto\u011flu said.<\/p>\n<p>Davuto\u011flu said Turkey would welcome any initiative from France regarding establishment of a joint history commission between Turkey and Armenia, and hoped that it would contribute to Turkish-Armenian rapprochement and normalize relations.<\/p>\n<p>In 2005, Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdo\u011fan sent a letter to the then Armenian President Robert Kocharyan and proposed to establish a joint commission of historians to study the Ottoman-era incidents of 1915.<\/p>\n<p>via France offers to host Turkish-Armenian history meeting &#8211; Hurriyet Daily News.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ANKARA &#8211; Anatolia News Agency France&#8217;s foreign minister today said that his country could host a Turkish-Armenian joint history commission meeting. Alain Juppe defined the incidents of 1915 as a challenging issue, and all countries were making a memory homework about their history. Such a memory homework could be done in a history commission, Juppe [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":83,"featured_media":46804,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,48],"tags":[7504,9721],"class_list":["post-46802","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-armenian-question","category-france","tag-alain-juppe","tag-armenian-question"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46802","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/83"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=46802"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46802\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/46804"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=46802"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=46802"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=46802"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}