Genocide? What Genocide? Turkish Minister Says \u2018Turkey Doesn\u2019t Know What Genocide Is\u2019<\/p>\n
Turkey EU-Affairs Minister Egemen Bagis is a notorious Genocide denier<\/p>\n
ANKARA\u2014Notorious Genocide-denying Turkish Minister of EU Affairs said Tuesday that Turkey doesn\u2019t know what Genocide is, claiming, once again, that there was never a Genocide in Turkey\u2019s history.<\/p>\n
Egemen Bagis comments came during the opening ceremony of an educational facility, where he also expressed his opposition to a decision in France to include the Armenian Genocide as part of French public school curriculum.<\/p>\n
\u201cIf only all countries\u2019 past had been simple and transparent just like Turkey\u2019s past. No genocides have occurred in Turkey\u2019s history. What\u2019s genocide? Turkey doesn\u2019t know what genocide is,\u201d Bagis told the Milliyet daily.<\/p>\n
Bagis claimed that Turks are proud of their history and forebears.<\/p>\n
France announced that it has included a chapter about the Armenian Genocide in secondary school textbooks, which will be used across the country.<\/p>\n
Bagis was quick to voice Turkey\u2019s \u201cstrong protest\u201d over this decision urging Paris to not test bilateral relations \u201conce again,\u201d reported the Hurriyet newspaper.<\/p>\n
\u201cI call on the French authorities to intensify efforts to resolve the Nagorno Karabakh conflict in the framework of OSCE Minsk Group rather than distort the historical facts,\u201d Bagis said.<\/p>\n
Turkish Education Ministry officials said they will first need to examine the book and see if it \u201cincludes phrases that incriminate Turkey and they will respond in line with international law through diplomatic channels.\u201d<\/p>\n
Today\u2019s Zaman reported that the chairman of the Turkish Parliament\u2019s powerful education committee accused the French government of planting the seeds of hate with its move to include the Armenian Genocide in history and geography books.<\/p>\n
Nabi Avc\u0131, chairman of the National Education, Culture, Youth and Sports Commission, told Today\u2019s Zaman in a phone interview on Monday that \u201cthe erosion of French culture and moving to the radical right in French politics that started with [former president Nicolas] Sarkozy continues to have a negative impact on the French education system.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cI just hope that sensible French intellectuals will raise their voices against this kind of provocative move that will plant seeds of hate into minds of young people in France,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n
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