‘FRENCH BILL IS IDIOCY’ – AGOS EDITOR-IN-CHIEF HRANT DINK SAID TO REUTERS
By Hakob Chakrian
AZG Armenian Daily
12/10/2006
In an interview with the Reuters, Hrant Dink, editor-in-chief of
Agos newspaper again labeled the French bill penalizing denial of the
Armenian Genocide “idiocy”. “You are citizens and your state uses this
(genocide issue) as a trump for the other party. The other party is
trying to make an attempt out of this and judge other people. This
is what I call idiocy. We are not obliged to be a pawn for these
irrational behaviors of the states toward one another. In order to
object to this kind of diplomatic nonsense, I will go to France,
oppose that law and commit the crime set by that law if necessary. I
want this irrational mentality to compete against one another to put
me in prison,” Dink was quotes as saying by Turkish Zaman daily.
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