Turkey issues diplomatic note to France over genocide intiative

Turkey has issued a diplomatic note to France over its move to include the so-called "Armenian Genocide" in history and geography books used in French secondary schools.Turkey's embassy in Paris issued a diplomatic note in the form of official letters to the French Foreign Ministry and Education Ministry to protest the inclusion in French textbooks of a two-page section that details mass killings of Armenians in 1915 using what the embassy says are "fake documents." Ankara demanded in the letters that the French authorities revise allegedly "objective" data provided in the textbooks. The letters also warned that the section in the French textbook will inflame hatred between the two nations. The Turkish Embassy stressed in the letters that French citizens of Turkish descent will be negatively affected by the inclusion of the section.