LE FIGARO: ‘THIS IS THE FIRST TIME THE GENOCIDE IS COMMEMORATED IN TURKEY’
ARMENPRESS
APRIL 26, 2010
YEREVAN
YEREVAN, APRIL 26, ARMENPRESS: On the occasion of the commemoration
ceremonies, dedicated to the Armenian Genocide victims, held in Turkey
April 24, the French ‘Le Figaro’ daily wrote that ‘This is the first
time the Genocide is commemorated in Turkey’.
In the editorial with the same title the daily writes that more than
100 people, gathered at HaydarpaÅ~_a station- the place from where over
220 Armenian intellectuals were sent into exile- paid tribute to the
memory of the Armenians killed by the Ottoman Turks from 1915 to 1917.
The French ‘Le Monde’ writes: ‘This is the first time in Turkey:
Turkish human rights defenders, intellectuals and artists commemorated
the massacres of the Armenians’.
As to the American press, some dailies wrote on the address of Obama
that ‘the US does not want tension in the relations with Turkey’.
The New York Times mentioned in the article entitled ‘Obama Cites
‘Devastating Chapter’ in Armenia Past" that tending to manage one of
the most emotional challenges of the foreign policy, ‘the President
Obama commemorated the Armenian Remembrance Day on Saturday, called
the deaths of 1.5 million Armenians during World War I "one of the
worst atrocities" of the 20th century and "a devastating chapter"
in history. But he did not call it genocide’ not to lose its NATO ally.
In the article entitled ‘Obama again stops short of calling slaughter
of Armenians a genocide’ Los Angeles Times reported that ‘the United
States relies on Turkey as a transit point for equipment for U.S.
troops in the region. Turkey is also currently a rotating member of
the United Nations Security Council, and the Obama administration
badly wants its vote of support for a pending resolution to impose
additional sanctions on Iran to limit its nuclear activities’.