CCAF condemns French FM’s remarks on Turkey’s accession to EU

February 13, 2013 – 20:52 AMT

PanARMENIAN.Net – Co-ordination Council of Armenian organisations of
France (CCAF) issued a statement condemning the French Foreign
Minister Laurent Fabius’s statement on positive signal to the
authoritarian regime of Turkey.
As Paris-based independent journalist Jean Eckian told a
PanARMENIAN.Net reporter, CCAF slams France’s decision to give its
agreement to the opening of a new chapter in Turkey-EU talks.
`The initiative, issued by Laurent Fabius on February 12, is
incomprehensible in the context of serious violations of freedoms in
the country,’ he said.
`This shocking decision of the French government is also considered in
the context of racism and violence against minorities in Turkey
(murder of Armenian women in Istanbul, anti-Kurdish repression, as
well as January 9 assassination of 3 Kurdish activists in Paris’
French student of Turkish origin Sevil Sevimli writes.
`Considering these events, Laurent Fabius’s announcement constitutes a
provocation and an encouragement in the turpitude of the AKP. It
expresses a cynical conception of the diplomacy, in total
contradiction with the commitments affirmed by the president of the
republic on the conditions of Turkey’s accession to the EU,’ CCAF
statement reads.