{"id":133779,"date":"2011-10-07T17:54:57","date_gmt":"2011-10-07T12:54:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.epress.am\/?p=133779"},"modified":"2011-10-07T17:56:42","modified_gmt":"2011-10-07T12:56:42","slug":"turkey-tells-france-to-confront-its-colonial-past-first","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/2011\/10\/07\/turkey-tells-france-to-confront-its-colonial-past-first.html","title":{"rendered":"Turkey Tells France to Confront its Colonial Past First"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Turkey said France should confront its colonial past before giving lessons to others on how to face history, in an angry response today to a call by French President Nicolas Sarkozy for Ankara to recognize the Armenian Genocide.<\/p>\n<p>Sarkozy, in Armenia on Thursday, <span style=\"color: #000080;\"><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.epress.am\/en\/2011\/10\/07\/azerbaijan-responds-to-sarkozys-armenian-genocide-statements.html\"><span style=\"color: #000080;\">challenged Turkey<\/span><\/a><\/strong><\/span> \u2014 which is seeking membership of the European Union \u2014 to face up to its past and threatened to pass a law in France that would make denying the genocide a crime.<\/p>\n<p>Turkish Foreign Minister Ahmet Davuto\u011flu (pictured) told a news conference: &#8220;Those who will not be able to face their own history for having carried out colonialism for centuries, for treating foreigners as second-class people, do not have the right to teach Turkey a history lesson or call for Turkey to face its history.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Davuto\u011flu said Turkey and Armenia were working together on ways to normalize ties and Sarkozy&#8217;s comments would have a negative impact on reconciliation efforts, <span style=\"color: #000080;\"><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.hurriyetdailynews.com\/n.php?n=turkish-foreign-ministers-responds-to-sarkozy-2011-10-07\"><span style=\"color: #000080;\">the Hurriyet Daily News reports<\/span><\/a><\/strong><\/span>.<\/p>\n<p>Armenia and Turkey, with the endorsement of the United States, the European Union and Russia, had agreed in 2009 to establish diplomatic ties and open their common border within two months of parliamentary approval.<\/p>\n<p>Sarkozy&#8217;s remarks has fueled a response from Turkey&#8217;s European Affairs Minister Egemen Ba\u011f\u0131\u015f as well, who stated earlier today that the French president should abandon &#8220;the role of historian and put his mind to getting his country out of the economic gulf in which it finds itself.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The French president should abandon &#8220;the role of historian and put his mind to getting his country out of the economic gulf in&#8230;<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":63474,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tstyn_error":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/133779"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=133779"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/133779\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/63474"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=133779"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=133779"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=133779"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}