TURKEY WARNS FRANCE OVER ARMENIAN ‘GENOCIDE’ LAW
Jerusalem Post
Dec 16 2011
ANKARA – Turkey warned France on Friday their political and economic
relations would suffer grave consequences if the French parliament
passed a draft law making it illegal to deny the 1915 mass killing
of Armenians in the Ottoman Empire was genocide.
French President Nicolas Sarkozy, a vocal critic of Turkey’s
long-standing, but slow-moving bid to join the European Union, told
Turkey in October that unless it recognized the killings as genocide,
France would consider making denial a crime.
The draft law, put forward by a deputy from Sarkozy’s party, is due to
go before parliament next week and proposes a one-year prison sentence
and 45,000 euro fine for denying the killings constitute genocide.
From: A. Papazian
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