HERVE DE CHARRETTE: PARLIAMENTS CANNOT DECIDE ON HISTORICAL FACTS
Journal of Turkish Weekly, Turkey
May 14 2006
PARIS – Parliaments cannot decide on historical facts, said Herve
de Charrette, the deputy chairman of French Parliamentary Foreign
Affairs Commission.
In an exclusive interview with A.A news agency correspondent, Charrette
announced that he is against the resolution, presented by the Socialist
Party, and which makes any denial of the so-called Armenian ‘genocide’
a crime.
Charrette, who is also the chairman of the French-Turkish Friendship
Group, noted that historical incidents must be examined by historians
and researchers.
“I am against this resolution since I attach great importance to
Turkish-French friendship,” he stressed.
Charrette indicated that he is optimistic that the resolution will
be rejected.
The resolution will be debated at the French parliament on May 18th.
The resolution has to be adopted at the Senate in order to be enacted.
French parliament passed a resolution acknowledging the so-called
genocide in 2001, and this caused a serious tension between Paris
and Ankara.
Armenian radicals name 1915 events as genocide while the Turks accuse
Arsmenians of commiting massacres against the Turkish people during
the First World War. More than 520.000 Muslims were massacred by the
Armenian armed groups in between 1915-1918.