Anne Dastakian
Translated by Vartan Matiossian
In its first issue of 2015, the year of the centennial of the genocide of the Armenians of 1915, always officially unrecognized by Turkey, Les Nouvelles d'Armenie Magazine (NAM), the biggest French magazine dedicated to Armenia, publishes an investigation which is at least worrisome. An exchange of emails (see below) from February 2012 between a French, Hubert Haenel, former senator and member of the Constitutional Council, and a Turk, Yasar Yakis, former minister of Foreign Affairs, ardent Francophile and Turkish lobbyist in France, tends to prove very dangerous relations between our "sages," independent and guarantors of the French Constitution in principle, and an eminent agent of foreign influence. The exchange was held at the moment of the invalidation, on February 28, 2012, by the Constitutional Council of the Boyer law which looked for penalizing "the denial of genocides recognized by France," namely, the Armenian genocide.
