French President Francois Hollande’s administration has included a chapter about the 1915 mass killings of ethnic Armenians in eastern Anatolia in secondary-school textbooks — a move that could once again upset relations with Turkey, which was hopeful about rebuilding strained ties with Paris following the election of the new president.Turkish daily Sabah reported on Sunday that the French Education Ministry has decided to include chapters about the Armenian genocide in history and geography books used in French secondary schools.French students studying world history since 1910 will also read a chapter called The Armenian Genocide.Hollande said last month that he will stand by a campaign pledge to make it illegal to deny that the killing of Armenians by Ottoman Turks in 1915 was genocide.History-Geography Teachers Council Secretary-General Hubert Tison has said the chapter in the textbook gives detailed information on the Armenian genocide.
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