Hurriyet: Turkish Minister qualifies Armenian Genocide with the term “absurd things”

As Turkish Hurriyet newspaper informs, Turkey’s European Union Minister Egemen Baghış has strongly criticized the introduction of the alleged Armenian genocide to French history textbooks.
Baghış called on the French, who take great pride in their state founded on the worthy precepts of “liberty, equality and fraternity” (liberté, égalité, et fraternité), to reexamine their understanding of their own national motto. “I hope they will soon realize this mistake and correct it,” he said.
“Turkey does not know what genocide is. Turkey knows the phrase ‘peace at home, peace in the world,’ as the founder of our republic, Ataturk said. We try to provide peace all around the world; we try to give love,” Baghış said.
“There was no colonial system in the places where we had been before,” he said, in an apparent reference to France’s colonial past. “There had always been prosperity and tolerance the places that we went. Instead of putting these absurd things in the textbooks, they should examine their understanding of ‘liberté, égalité, and fraternité.’ We recommend that the OSCE end the tension between Azerbaijan and Armenia. We hope they can stop focusing on elections and focus on issues affecting future generations as soon as possible. We hope that Turkey will be a means for the European Union to get out of the mental abyss it has fallen into.”
Turkey’s Minister’s viewpoint causes laughter concerning the past of the brilliant republic. By the way, this is the same Minister, which in Zurich and Davos publicly announced that the events of 1915 weren’t a genocide. And he wasn’t arrested due to his diplomatic immunity, despite the fact that Zurich state agencies processed an investigation against him. Note, there is a law in Switzerland, which prosecutes all the people, which deny all the facts including the Armenian Genocide.
Characteristic, Turkey’s Minister described information on Armenian Genocide with a term which arises astonishment, despite such kind of announcements became usual by Turkish nationalist political figures. According to him these are “absurd things.” This announcement once more gives evidence to the fact that it’s not able to establish friendly relationship with all its neighbors and break the policy of denial, continues leading blockhead foreign policy against the Republic of Armenia.