France Holds First 'Armenia Genocide' Remembrance Day
PARIS —
France held its first "national day of commemoration of the Armenian genocide" on Wednesday, provoking an angry reaction from Turkish leader Recep Tayyip Erdogan.
Troops from the Ottoman Empire — which preceded modern-day Turkey — were responsible for massacres and forced deportations of Armenians from 1915, but Turkey has always denied that the killings amounted to genocide.
France was the first major European country to recognize the massacres as genocide in 2001 and Macron announced the national day of remembrance in February this year, saying that his country "knows how to look history in the face."
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https://www.france24.com/en/20190424-france-national-commemoration-armenian-genocide
Whatever one says about France, they seem to express themselves frequently in protests. And for freedom of speech, that's great.
For America, I once saw an exhibit of all of these posters from that time calling for charitable donations to help out our Christian brothers and sisters in that area of the world. I don't know the whole story and if they were persecuted in places other than Turkey. And for that, we should be proud! Great works of art as well.
Most of these posters speak of the "Near East", it seems to be referring to a refugee situation, maybe they were going to Greece and places like that and needed help. Iran too, probably took the refugees in. I don't always see Iran as a bogeyman but who knows.