ANKARA APPLAUDS FRENCH SENATORS” PLAN TO BLOCK GENOCIDE BILL
Kuwait News Agency
Jan 31 2012
ISTANBUL, Jan 31 (KUNA) — Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan
welcomed here Tuesday French senators’ plan to take a bill making it
a crime to deny the “Armenian genocide of 1915” to the Constitutional
Council.
A group of French senators has appealed to France’s Constitutional
Council to block a law that would punish anyone who denied the
alleged massacre of 1.5 million Armenians between 1915 and 1917 by
Ottoman Turks.
“This move is in keeping with what we would expect from France. I
hope the Constitutional Council will do what is necessary,” Erdogan
told his party’s parliamentary bloc.
He thanked the French senators for taking such a step.
France’s Constitutional Council has up to a month to reach a decision
on the law’s constitutionality, which could result in a rejection of
the law.
As it currently stands, the law punishes deniers of the Armenian
genocide with up to a year in jail and a fine of 45,000 euros (USD
57,000). (end) ta.mt KUNA 312221 Jan 12NNNN
From: Emil Lazarian | Ararat NewsPress
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