Erdogan ERUPTS, says Macron should be tried for crimes against humanity

[basquebromance]

"Macron, who claims to face history, should first face the crimes that his country, France, committed against humanity…" Fahrettin Altun, Communications Director to the Turkish Presidency

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LOCK HIM UP!

 

[basquebromance]

France committed crimes "against humanity in Benin, Burkina Faso, Gabon, Guinea, Cameroon, Mauritania, Niger, Senegal, Tunisia, Algeria, and Chad." Turkish Presidential Communications Director Fahrettin Altun

 

[The Irish Ram]

It's a new day. Move on Erdogan...

 

[xyz]

I suspect it has something to do with the Armenian genocide.

Macron declares April 24 commemoration day of Armenian genocide in France | Reuters

 

[basquebromance]

There have been French crimes. i can prove it easily

 

[xyz]

There have been French crimes. i can prove it easily

O.k. inspecteur Clouseau.

Actually I never said there weren't French colonial crimes.

 

[Chiara]

I think that maybe Mr. Erdogan shouldn't say something like that. He should be more "diplomatic", more polite. He's a Head of State not a private citizen.

 

[baileyn45]

Someone residing in the home of the Ottomans has no place to call others out.

 

[Zorro!]

I suspect it has something to do with the Armenian genocide.

Macron declares April 24 commemoration day of Armenian genocide in France | Reuters

ON ARMENIAN GENOCIDE DAY, revisiting Islam’s greatest slaughter of Christians.

Today, April 24, marks the “Great Crime,” that is, the genocide of Christians—mostly Armenians but also Assyrians—that took place under the Islamic Ottoman Empire throughout World War I. The Turks murdered 1.5 million Armenians and 300,000 Assyrians.

Most objective American historians who have studied the question unequivocally agree that it was a deliberate, calculated genocide:

More than one million Armenians perished as the result of execution, starvation, disease, the harsh environment, and physical abuse. A people who lived in eastern Turkey for nearly 3,000 years, more than double the amount of time the invading Islamic Turks had occupied Anatolia, now known as “Turkey”, lost its homeland and was profoundly decimated in the first large-scale genocide of the twentieth century.

At the beginning of 1915 there were some two million Armenians within Turkey; today there are fewer than 60,000…. Despite the vast amount of evidence that points to the historical reality of the Armenian Genocide, eyewitness accounts, official archives, photographic evidence, the reports of diplomats, and the testimony of survivors, denial of the Armenian Genocide by successive regimes in Turkey has gone on from 1915 to the present.​