FRENCH MASONIC ORGANIZATION PRESSES TURKISH PEERS TO RECOGNIZE ARMENIAN GENOCIDE
ARMENPRESS
Apr 25 2007
YEREVAN, APRIL 25, ARMENPRESS: Claude Gedan, who led an official
delegation of representatives of top " Grand Orient de France (French-
Masonic organization ) that has arrived in Yerevan for the first
time to share personally the pain of Armenians scattered all-over
the world and address their sympathy to the memory of 1.500.000
victims of the 1915 Genocide, said the Grand Orient de France not
only recognizes the Armenian genocide, but will also fight for its
international acknowledgment, with a focus on pressing Turkey to
acknowledge that crime.
He said the organization’s head met last February in Turkey with
Turkish organization’s top members demanding that they also recognize
the Armenian genocide, saying otherwise the French organization would
break all ties with them.
"We accept that some Masons were involved in plotting the Armenian
genocide, but none was from the Grand Orient of France. We condemn what
they did and we find that a Mason that chooses the path of violence
and nationalism is no longer a Mason. A glaring example of that was
Taleat Pasha," he said.
The Grand Orient de France is one of the biggest French Masonic
organizations with 50,000 members.