Friday, April 15, 2011

From 'servants of Armenians' to just 'French'

"From 'servants of Armenians' to just 'French'
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Thursday, April 14, 2011
BURAK BEKDİL

I am not sure if this is something the French should be proud of. But in less than three decades they have been upgraded from being “servants of Armenians,” as stadiums full of Turks shouted at visiting French teams, to “just French,” as Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdoğan referred to them on Wednesday, meaning “they are totally ignorant of [Turkish] affairs.”"

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