YEREVAN.- Inclusion of a chapter on Armenian Genocide in the French textbooks is an initiative of the French education ministry, said head of the Hay Dat (Armenian Cause) office in France. Hrachya Varzhapetian told Armenian News-NEWS.am that a new chapter included in the textbooks for tenth graders consists of two pages. “The changes in textbooks made a big fuss in Turkey,” he emphasized. He also commented on Francois Hollande’s recent remark regarding the textbooks. In an interview with Hurriyet daily, Hollande said the decision did not come from him but an education commission. “It is a good signal that the initiative belonged to the education commission, not president Hollande. Otherwise, it would have had a political implication,” Varzhapetian added. As reported earlier, inclusion of the mentioned chapters aroused concern of the Turkish Foreign Ministry. The foreign office said it would study the mater thoroughly.
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