Turkish student punished in France for denying Armenian Genocide

13:09 18/11/2009 » Politics

Turkish student punished in France for denying Armenian Genocide

13-year-old Turkish Mustafa Dogan studying at one of French lyceums has been forced to leave the school for denying Armenian Genocide conducted by Ottoman Empire, Turkish Hurrieyt reports. Turkish student of French lyceum attended round table meeting over Armenian Genocide and denied the fact. Mustafa attended the meeting with his friends and all were forced to leave their studies. Turkish Mustafa was so furious that declared “If there has been genocide than Armenians worthed it.” Mustafa was assigned to prepare a report covering Genocide committed by Ottoman Empire; Crime against humanity. Mustafa’s parents were against that sort of assignment. But the history teacher commented that the mission of the assignment was to make Mustafa stop thinking the way he did “they worthed that genocide.”

Source: Panorama.am

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