
Turkey Sends Official Protest to France Over 1915 Textbook Flap
Turkey's embassy in Paris has sent a diplomatic note to the French Foreign Ministry and Education Ministry protesting the inclusion of a two-page section that details mass killings of Armenians in 1915, according to a new brief in Today’s Zaman.
The embassy claims that the information in question is based on “fake documents.”
Ankara has demanded that French authorities revise the allegedly “objective” data provided in the textbooks. The letters also criticized telegrams allegedly sent by then Ottoman minister Talat Pasha that prove the mass killings of Armenians were done in a systematic and deliberate way. The embassy said the telegraphs are fake.
The official Turkish note also warns that the section in French textbooks will inflame hatred between the two nations.
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