TURKEY: FRENCH LAW ON ARMENIAN GENOCIDE IS RACIST
Prensa Latina
Jan 24 2012
24 de enero de 2012, 14:08Ankara, Jan 24 (Prensa Latina) The turkish
government on Tuesday described as racist and discriminatory the
legislation passed by the French Senate to punish the denial of an
Armenian genocide.
According to the turkish people, the French law does not exist,
reaffirmed Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan before the parliamentary
group of the ruling Justice and Development Party.
The French Senate adopted the initiative on Monday night by 127 votes
in favor, 86 against and 24 abstentions. The law punishes with one
year in jail and a fine of 45,000 euros those who deny that almost
a century ago the Ottoman-Turkish empire committed genocide against
the Armenians.
Ankara does not recognize these facts and claims that the deaths
between 1915-1917 were within the context of the First World War.
While senators debated the document prior to its approval, outside
the Palace of Luxembourg hundreds of Turkish and Armenian communities
staged demonstrations separated by a police cordon.
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