Turkish schoolboy in France denies Genocide
17:35 / 11/21/2009

A Turkish high schooler of a French school, who refused to write a composition about Armenian Genocide in Ottoman Empire, reasoning that “Even if it did happen, Armenians deserved it” had agreed to put that all genocides ever are the result of injustice, CNNturk informs.

As NEWS.am informed earlier, the law on denial of Armenian Genocide providing a persecution will be adopted in France. Mustafa Dogan, a 13-year-old Turk, was expelled from a school in Nancy after insisting that there was no Armenian Genocide, Nov. 18. Dogan’s history teacher asked a question about the events of 1915 and the “Armenian Genocide” in a written exam. Having previously argued with the teacher over the matter, the Turkish schoolboy got angry and wrote, “Even if it did happen, they deserved it.”

Mehmet Dogan – Mustafa’s father, accused the principal of racism. ‘I wish he hadn’t written ‘Even if [the genocide] did happen, they deserved it.’ This made them angry,’ he said.

Later, Today’s Zaman contacted the principal of the Jacques Marquette secondary school, Francis Vignola and asked to comment on the case. “Vignola said he supported the sanctions placed on Mustafa Dogan,” the source concludes.