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Turkey's President Recep Tayyip Erdogan said on Wednesday that France, the author of genocide resulting in the massacre of hundreds of thousands of people in Algeria and Rwanda, can not give lectures to Turkey.
During a speech at the State Archives Symposium in Ankara, Erdogan stressed that if all the massacres, genocide, torture and inhumane treatment are revealed, those (France) who are now making noise against Turkey for 'genocide, democracy and freedom', are the first."It is cleear of who has killed 800,000 people in Rwandan genocide 25 years ago, the authors are the French. Now the French get up and give us lessons. What lesson do you give? We know very well the massacres you have done in Algeria and Rwanda," said the head of the Turkish state.
He said that all those who try to give lectures of Turkey on human rights and democracy using the Armenian issue and the fight against terrorism have a bloodthirsty past.
Erdogan also recalled that no group and state that have been demolishing the Armenian issue to date have been able to prove their allegations with archive documents.
"Our archives are open to the end for anyone who wants to discover the reality. We have no secrets. Armenians, if they have, let them open their archives; the whole world and third countries, if they have, let them open the archives. We know that none of those who stir the waters with claims of genocide over Armenians does not intend to reveal the truth," the Turkish president underlined among other things.