The International Federation for Human Rights appealed to Turkey to recognize the Armenian Genocide of 1915. As reported by "Mediamax" agency, the dispatch sent by the Federation to the Turkish Prime Minister Recep Erdogan runs. In its letter the Federation expressed anxiety for the educational decrees adopted recently in Turkey, forbidding the teachers of history to tell the Turkish pupils about the persecution of national minorities, in particular the representatives of the Armenian community, by the Ottoman Turkey government. To note, the International Federation on Human Rights is located in Paris.