"At Last, A French Acknowledgement
Published: 6/2/2006
BY OZDEMIR INCE
HURRIYET- A May 18 column by Alexander Adler published in French daily Le Figaro made me say, ‘At last!’ Adler is a French historian who is fair about the Armenian and Kurdish question. On the day when the bill to criminalize denial of the so-called Armenian genocide was debated in the French Parliament, Alexander went one step further and reminded the French of their responsibilities in this tragedy: ‘It is certain that there won’t be any regret over how, during the 1915 genocide, France was fighting against the Ottoman Empire. The same France helped those Armenians who could survive the genocide to settle in the south and even fight against the new republic of Mustafa Kemal in French uniforms.’ (Le Figaro, ‘Glasnost torque sur la question armenienne.’)"
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