FRENCH PUBLISHING HOUSE TO PROOFREAD ANTI-ARMENIAN ARTICLE IN BOOK TELLING ABOUT TURKEY

Noyan Tapan
Jul 24, 2007

PARIS, JULY 24, NOYAN TAPAN – ARMENIANS TODAY. The famous French
"Hashet" publishing house has decided to proofread a book, which
does not recognize the Armenian Genocide, under the pressure exerted
by the French-Armenian community. The publishing house has recently
published a cognitive book telling about Turkey, in which the tragic
events of 1915 have been neglected, instead, the false statements of
the Turkish side are included in it.

Aleksi Govchian, the coordinator of the Armenian unions of France,
has sent a letter to the above-mentioned publishing house on
behalf of the French-Armenian community and local Armenian unions,
mentioning that the article titled "The defeat of Armenia" in the
"Blue guide-book" book published by the "Hashet" publishing house
denies the Armenian Genocide in an indirect way and claimed that
the publishing house should change it. The "Hashet" publishing house
answered this letter, mentioning: "We want to inform you that we do
not defend such viewpoints, which deny the Genocide."

With the same letter the publishing house makes assertions that this
article will be proofread in the new book to be published in 2009.

It is written in the part, which is regarded as subject of the problem,
that Armenians killed a great number of Turks and Kurds by joining
the Russians during the World War I and the Ottoman Turkey organized
a slaughter in Van in 1915 for that reason.