PRESIDENT CHIRAC CALLS ON TURKEY TO RECOGNIZE GENOCIDE OF ARMENIANS
Focus News, Bulgaria
Sept 30 2006
Yerevan. The French President Jacques Chirac call on Turkey to "acknowledge its past" while he was speaking about the mass murders of Armenians in the Ottoman Empire, Macedonian TV A1 reports.
"Turkey should acknowledge its mistakes from the past. I believe that each country should recognize its tragic moments and mistakes from the past", the French head of state announced at a joint press conference with the Armenian President Robert Kocharian.
According to President Chirac who is on a two days' visit in Yerevan, Turkey should declare the killing of Armenians as genocide.
The Armenian community claims that some 1.5 million Armenians were killed between 1915 and 1923.
Sept 30 2006
Yerevan. The French President Jacques Chirac call on Turkey to "acknowledge its past" while he was speaking about the mass murders of Armenians in the Ottoman Empire, Macedonian TV A1 reports.
"Turkey should acknowledge its mistakes from the past. I believe that each country should recognize its tragic moments and mistakes from the past", the French head of state announced at a joint press conference with the Armenian President Robert Kocharian.
According to President Chirac who is on a two days' visit in Yerevan, Turkey should declare the killing of Armenians as genocide.
The Armenian community claims that some 1.5 million Armenians were killed between 1915 and 1923.
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