The Issue of the Armenian Genocide in France-Turkey Relations

The Armenian factor in France-Turkey relations has always had its influence on the political relations and dialogue between the two countries, leading to sharp conflicts and crises, which, in addition to the political sphere, directly affected other spheres of bilateral relations and directions of cooperation, continuous changes registering in them. The Encyclopedia of Genocides and Crimes Against Humanity calls the denial of the Armenian Genocide "the most blatant example of the state denying its own past." The main mission of a number of Turks, as well as Western scholars funded by the Turkish state, has become the creation of a "parallel" history that has little to do with reality and denies the Armenian Genocide.