When Joan D' Arc was asked by her judges why as a Christian she did not love the British, she answered that she did love them, but she loved British in their country. In the same way, we do not hate the Turks, we love them, but in their country. |
The Second World War claimed tens of millions of victims. |
There was no reason to label us as anti-Semitic. |
Millions also perished in the Chinese camps, and there have been terrible genocides in Cambodia and Vietnam. |
The government would have preferred not to take a stand, but the constant presence of the Israeli-Arab conflict on our television screens made it an issue that could no longer be avoided. |
I'm not saying that the gas chambers didn't exist. I couldn't see them myself. |
In my speeches, I always condemned communism, national-socialism and fascism. |
Everyone sees drama from his own perspective. |