"Osman also said his family "owed their lives" to French-Armenians after their exile from Turkey. "We were penniless," he told the Daily News. "Our Armenian friends helped us. There was an Armenian lady who welcomed us to her chateau and we lived there for a long time. I cannot deny the good deeds Armenians have done for my family," grandson of Abdul Hamid II, an 80-year Beyzade Bulent Osman told the Turkish newspaper Hurriyet Daily News.

Regarding the recognition of the Armenian Genocide , Osman said: I am on the side of truth," Osman said on the issue. "The French and the Germans had also slaughtered each other, came into conflict but still managed to establish dialogue. We have to leave history behind us and look ahead."