Zaman Online, Turkey
July 6 2005
Decision on ‘Encyclopedic Denial’ Due Today in Paris
By Ali Ihsan Aydin
Published: Wednesday July 06, 2005
zaman.com
The lawsuit filed by the Armenian organizations against the famous
French encyclopedia, The Quid will be concluded today. Armenian
organizations filed the lawsuit on the ground that The Quid mentioned
the opinions of Turkey concerning the so-called Armenian genocide.
Resorting to the Paris Court in 2003, the French Armenian Case
Defense Committee (CDCA) had accused The Quid encyclopedias and
Robert Laffront Publishing of “spreading denial propaganda”. The
Paris court heard the case on 25 May 2005. The Armenian organization
claimed that the encyclopedia mentioned the “Turks position”
regarding the issue aiming to question the telling of the incidents
of the 1915 “Armenian genocide” in its 2003 edition, which is renewed
annually. CDCA lawyers asked for penalties for The Quid’s editors and
demanded that Turkey’s opinions be removed from the encyclopedia. The
Paris Court had overruled the CDCA case last year against Turkey’s
Consulate General in Paris showing “the diplomatic immunity” of the
consul general as grounds. The lawsuit was filed after the Consulate
General rejected the “Armenian genocide” allegations on its website.
Formerly, the court had convicted famous historian Bernard Lewis to a
symbolic pay indemnity of one euro in 1995 after he spoke to French
newspaper Le Monde against the so-called Armenian genocide.
From: Emil Lazarian | Ararat NewsPress