news.az, Azerbaijan
Jan 6 2012
Azerbaijani, Turkish diaspora in Sweden send protest to French embassy
Fri 06 January 2012 14:54 GMT | 16:54 Local Time
The heads of Azerbaijani and Turkish diaspora organizations in Sweden
have written a joint letter of protest against French policy towards
Armenia.
The letter sent to the French embassy in Sweden was signed by the head
of the Sweden- Azerbaijan Federation, Settar Sevigin, and the head of
the Ataturk Ideology Centre, Mustafa Sonmez, Gun.Az reports.
The letter condemns the French National Assembly’s approval of a bill
criminalizing the denial of genocide. If passed by the Senate, the
bill will make it a crime to deny any genocide recognized by France,
including denial that the 1915 killings of Armenians in the Ottoman
Empire were genocide.
The letter says that approval of the bill will increase feuds and racism.
The letter is supported by 12 NGOs. It was sent to the French embassy
together with an English edition of Kamran Gur’s book entitled
“Armenian File”.
News.Az
From: Baghdasarian
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