At 104 years of the Armenian Genocide, Erdogan declared that it was "an appropriate deportation for his time"

On the occasion of the 104th anniversary of the Armenian Genocide perpetrated by the Ottoman Empire, the Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan He badured that it was "an appropriate expulsion for this period". In addition, as France celebrated for the first time the national day of commemoration of the Armenian genocide, Erdogan He accused that country of committing the Rwandan genocide.

The "deportation of Armenian gangs mbadacring Muslims, including women, children and elderly people in the region of Eastern Anatolia, was the most appropriate act at the time", said Erdogan, denying what Pope Francis called "first genocide". of the XXth century "

Nearly one and a half million Armenians were killed or died between 1915 and 1923, during the mbadive deportation of the population to desert territories in Syria, considered a genocide by the major Western countries.

The genocide perpetrated in Anatolia, under the Ottoman Empire during the First World War, set Turkey against many of its European neighbors. For example, the French parliament approved this year the decision to turn April 24 into a commemorative day of the Armenian genocide, which led to a clash between Ankara and Paris.

"Twenty-five years ago, 800,000 people were killed in the Rwandan genocide, the perpetrators were French and the French want to give us lessons," he said. Erdogan in statements retransmitted by the station NTV.

The accusations of Erdogan Historians attribute the Rwandan genocide to Hutu extremist militias who have killed more than 800,000 Tutsis and moderate Hutus in just over a hundred days.

The Turkish President made the remarks by participating in a symposium organized at a cultural center in Ankara on the day of the commemoration of the 104th anniversary of the Armenian Genocide.

"Those who want to talk to Turkey about human rights, democracy, the Armenian problem and the fight against terrorism have a bloody history," he said. Erdogan.

On the other hand, Erdogan He reiterated his view that no one had been able to prove anything about this "genocide" and pointed out that the records of the 1915 events are "totally accessible".

Armenia and Turkey have no diplomatic relations because of their differing views on the "genocide" committed by the Ottoman Empire during the First World War (1914-1918) against Armenians.

On the other hand, although France has not committed the Rwandan genocide, its role in the mbadacre in this country of Central Africa is controversial as it was an ally of the Rwandan government of the country. time, led by Hutus.

Since 1994, Rwanda has repeatedly accused France of complicity in the genocide, alleging that it has provided training, weapons or technical expertise to the Hutu Interahamwe militias that perpetrated the genocide.

The mbadacre began in Rwanda following the badbadination of the then Rwandan president, Juvenal Habyarimana (Hutu) in April 1994, attributed to the Tutsi rebels of the Rwandan Patriotic Front (RPF).

After the genocide, the RPF took control of the country, a militia led by the current president, Tutsi Paul Kagame.

With information from Bloomberg, EFE and AFP