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| The Grand Turk |
| Turkish minister, French lawmaker clash over Armenia ‘genocide’ day |
| 2019-04-13 |
| [ENGLISH.ALARABIYA.NET] ...the only place on the face of the earth that misses the Ottoman Empire.... and Armenia are at odds over how to describe treatment of Armenians during the Ottoman era in WWI, with Turkey denying massacres and forced deportations amounted to a genocide. French President Emmanuel Macron in February announced La Belle France would hold a national day on April 24 to commemorate the "Armenian genocide", drawing criticism from Ankara. During a meeting of the NATO ...the North Atlantic Treaty Organization. Originally it was a mutual defense pact directed against an expansionist Soviet Union. In later years it evolved into a mechanism for picking the American pocket while criticizing the cut of the American pants... parliamentary assembly in Antalya in southern Turkey on Friday, He also referenced massacres committed in Algeria when it was still a French colony and in Rwanda whose government accuses Gay Paree of being complicit in the 1994 slaughter there. Attending the meeting, French politician Sonia Krimi, from Macron’s LREM party, criticized "In terms of genocide and history, La Belle France is the last country to be giving lectures to Turkey, and we have not forgotten what happened in Rwanda and Algeria," the minister said. "You can keep trying to look down on us, but we will keep putting you in your place." Krimi and the French delegation left the room in protest over Cavusoglu’s remarks. "When the arrogant @MevlutCavusolgu gives you lessons on arrogance and politeness, arrogantly and without any respect," she wrote on Twitter referring to the incident. Turkey’s presidential front man Ibrahim Kalin hit back posting on Twitter a story from state news agency Anadolu about "dark stains in French history." "Neither their colonial past nor their self-centred present guarantees their moral superiority," he wrote. |
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