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Bulent Arinc: â€œIt is dishonesty to introduce the World War One events as genocideâ€

23 January 2012 16:51 (UTC +04:00)

APAâ€™s European bureau reports that Bulent Arinc said Turkey saw France as an example country and the two countries had good relations. â€œUnfortunately the wrong decisions today are damaging these relations. The draft law discussed in the French Senate is seriously damaging the freedom of speech. It is contradictory to the European Convention on Human Right and European Courtâ€™s resolutions as well. Armenian diaspora abroad created the â€œArmenian genocideâ€ claims. We donâ€™t understand the desire of French parliamentarians to write a history. This issue should be researched by the historians. But today France uses these issues for its domestic political purposes. It doesnâ€™t become French history and past. We hope that this misunderstanding will be resolved in the French Senate today. If the draft law is adopted, it will seriously damage the French-Turkish relationsâ€.

Bulent Arinc said history should be left to the historians to be researched. â€œFive years ago, Turkey proposed to establish the commission of historians to investigate the â€œgenocideâ€ claims, but Armenia rejected this proposal. Turkey is attributed to its past and is ready to face with history. It is wrong and dishonesty to introduce the World War One events as genocideâ€.