New Aggravation of the Franco-Turkish Relations

Armenia-Turkey: France included in the tutorials a section of the mass murder of ethnic Armenians in the Ottoman Empire, according to www.eurasianet.org.

France seems to have written a new page in its history books, as well as in the story of its confrontation with Turkey at this stage. The history of mass destruction of Armenians in Ottoman Turkey, which, according to Ankara, was a by-product of the First World War, entered the textbooks on world history, according to the French, Armenian and Turkish media.

The news of this came at the time when Paris and Ankara are gradually trying to mend relations after a high diplomatic scandal caused by the law (eventually annulled by the Constitutional Court of France) penalizing the Armenian Genocide denial.

In July, the Turkish Foreign Minister Ahmet Davutoglu sent a foot to Paris to negotiate ways to expand trade and the formation of a "new understanding" in French-Turkish relations.

In August, the Foreign Minister of France Laurent Fabius paid a return visit to Turkey, coming to the country to discuss the Syrian crisis, and to visit the Syrian refugee camp.

Yet this law still continues to exert its influence. Prior to his election this year as President, Francois Hollande promised the electorate (in particular, the number of voters of the Armenian Diaspora) to adopt a "new law" relating to the claim that those massacres were genocide.

It is unclear if the new chapter in the history books serves the same general purpose.

It is also unclear whether all the French government supports the Hollande declared landmarks.

As stressed in July at a joint news conference with Ahmet Davutoglu the French Foreign Minister Fabius, adoption of the canceled law on genocide "is impossible." However, after a few days, some unnamed source in the President Administration told Reuters that the promise of Hollande on the new law "will be fulfilled."

At the same time, the French President Francois Hollande quickly told the newspaper Hurriyet that he did not give any orders to the Ministry of Education of the country to introduce a section on Armenian Genocide to the history books for high school, reported Regnum. "I will deal with that issue," said the President to the Turkish newspaper.

The Turkish Ambassador to France Tahsin Burcuoglu in this regard, said that the embassy is currently studying French school textbooks of history and geography, and at the end of this work it will prepare a detailed report that will be submitted to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Turkey. -0 -