Today, on November 4, an action of protest against the French Paliament's passing a bill concerning the so-called Armenian genocide, that envisages a criminal responsibility for a denial of the so-called genocide, Trend Special Correspondent to Igdir reports.
The action was organized by the Municipality of the Turkish Village of Igdir on the Turkish border with Armenia. Nurettin Araz, Head of the Municipality, addressing the arrangement, stated that such decisions as the one made by the French Parliament is aimed to drive Turkey into the corner by means of the Armenian issue. Mr. Aras said that in the issue of Turkish membership in EU, there are people who sincerely wants Turkey's joining EU, who realizes its importance to Europe, and on the contrary, there are those who are scared from Muslim Turkey, who say we are the Christian club, and there are no place for Turkey in it. Mr. Aras asked a question, what France, which is considered to be the address of independence, which itself have committed massive massacres for centuries, will gain from it?
He also pointed out that according to the research conducted by American, English, and Russian experts, Armenians themselves have killed over 2.5 mln. Turks for the last century. They killed hundreds of thousands of Azerbaijanis in Azerbaijan. On March 31, 1918, they killed more than 10,000 Azerbaijanis just in one day, he stressed. The participants of the protest scanned: Real genocide was in Khojali, Why France does not acknowledge Khojali Massacre?!, etc.
Notably, the arrangement was held in village Khakhmed, where in 1919, Armenian forces buried dozens of Turks alive. As a result 51 bodies were found. In this location a memorial was raised in 1995.