FACTS OF GENOCIDE ARE NOT ESTABLISHED
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10:33:36 – 07/10/2009
Turkish President, Abdulah Gul opens with Nicolas Sarkozy, on Thursday,
the exhibition ‘From Byzantium to Istanbul’ at the Grand Palais,
in the context of the Season Turkey in France against a backdrop of
tense relations between the two countries.
An journalist of the’Figaro’ asked the Turkish president: To lead
to one complete normalization and the opening of the border, are you
ready to tackle of the Armenian genocide issue? ‘We wish establishment
of a historical commission to establish the facts.’
For you, those are not established?
‘Not, of course. These events took place hundred years ago. Admittedly,
there was tragic and deplorable sufferings, but of the mutual
sufferings. Our objective is peace, stability and the co-operation
in all this area, for the future of our children’, he answered to
the French journalist.