Istanbul Police Chief Investigated In Journalist Murder

ISTANBUL POLICE CHIEF INVESTIGATED IN JOURNALIST MURDER

Agence France Presse — English
February 7, 2007 Wednesday

Turkey’s interior ministry has ordered an investigation against
Istanbul’s police chief and a senior officer amid charges that police
failed to act on threats against slain ethnic Armenian journalist
Hrant Dink, a ministry official said Wednesday.

The probe against police chief Celalettin Cerrah and Ahmet Ilhan Guler,
former head of Istanbul police’s intelligence unit, follows a request
by investigators probing alleged police negligence in Dink’s killing,
the offical told AFP on the condition of anonymity.

"The inspectors have found certain administrative and judicial faults
by these two officers. They will now be asked to give a statement
with regards to the findings," he added.

Investigators will then decide whether there is a need for a judicial
investigation against the two officers which could pave the way for
charges against them, he added.

The Istanbul police has come under intense criticism following the
January 19 murder amid media reports that they received a tip-off
last year of a plot to kill the 52-year-old editor of the bilingual
Agos weekly, but did not follow up on it.

Police have arrested eight suspects, all hailing from the northern
city of Trabzon, in connection with Dink’s murder.

One of them, 17-year-old Ogun Samast, has confessed to killing Dink,
a prominent member of Turkey’s small Armenian community who was hated
by nationalists for labelling as genocide the World War I killings
of Armenians.

Another is Yasin Hayal, 26, who served 11 months in jail for a 2004
bomb blast outside a McDonald’s restaurant in Trabzon and allegedly
gave Samast money and a gun to kill Dink.

Trabzon’s governor and police chief have already been removed from
office amid accusations that they failed to seriously investigate
groups of youths under the sway of ultra-nationalist and Islamist
ideas.

The probe into Dink’s murder has proved a serious embarrassment for
the Turkish security forces.

Ten members of the police and a paramilitary force have been dismissed
from their posts in the northern city of Samsun, where Samast was
arrested on January 20, after a video was leaked to the media last
week showing security forces posing with the alleged assailant for
"souvenir pictures".

The police are also under fire for failing to grant Dink special
protection, even though the journalist mentioned in articles in his
bilingual Turkish-Armenian weekly Agos that he was receiving threats
and hate mail.

ANKARA: Scandalous New Video Uncovered In Dink Murder Probe

SCANDALOUS NEW VIDEO UNCOVERED IN DINK MURDER PROBE
Sedat Gunec Ankara

Today’s Zaman, Turkey
Feb 7 2007

Inspectors uncovered a second video showing the suspected murderer of
Turkish-Armenian journalist Hrant Dink being given a "hero’s welcome"
at a police station after his arrest in the Black Sea province
of Samsun.

Five police officers and five members of the Gendarmerie have been
dismissed from their duties since footage showing members of the police
and the gendarmerie posing for "souvenir photos" with 17-year-old Ogun
Samast, who confessed to killing Dink because he "insulted Turkish
blood," was broadcasted on Turkish television. An investigation has
been launched into the incident and inspectors have been sent to
Samsun, where Samast was captured after a nation-wide manhunt.

In the second video, which appears to be continuation of the first
video, the same police and gendarmerie officials are seen chatting
with Samast in an unceremonious way. A fifth police official and a
fifth gendarmerie member were dismissed after inspectors saw that
second video and asked for their dismissal, sources said.

Members of the security forces are seen in the second video giving
Samast a "hero’s welcome" and asking him how he committed the murder.

Some officials are seen making comments in praise of what he did.

Dink was murdered on Jan. 19 in broad daylight outside his office in
downtown Ýstanbul. The murder was followed by allegations that the
security forces failed to follow up on a tip-off last year about a
plot to kill Dink.

On Monday evening, the Interior Ministry sacked Ýstanbul Police
Intelligence Chief Ahmet Ýlhan Guler as part of the ongoing
investigation for reportedly ignoring a tip about the planned attack
one year ago.

Media reports have alleged the Ýstanbul police received a tip-off
from their colleagues in Trabzon last year that Hayal was plotting to
kill Dink, but did not follow up on the intelligence. Turkish daily
Sabah reported that Guler told inspectors he never reported the tip
to Ýstanbul Police Chief Celalettin Cerrah because the information
did not seem reliable.

Reports also said an investigation into the Ýstanbul police
intelligence department was continuing.

Trial continues after Dink’s death Meanwhile, an Ýstanbul court
began retrial of Dink for "insulting Turkishness" pursuant to a
Supreme Court of Appeals decision that rejected an earlier verdict
on procedural grounds. The Supreme Court of Appeals upheld a lower
court ruling that sentenced Dink to a six-month suspended jail term
for insulting Turkishness in an article he wrote in February 2004,
saying elements of the crime existed, but decided to override the
ruling on procedural grounds.

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RA President’s Spokesman: I Am Not In Proportional List Of Any Polit

RA PRESIDENT’S SPOKESMAN: I AM NOT IN PROPORTIONAL LIST OF ANY POLITICAL PARTY OF ARMENIA

Yerevan, February 7. ArmInfo. "I am not in the proportional list of
any political party of Armenia", RA President’s spokesman, Viktor
Soghomonyan, told ArmInfo today.

He made this statement in response to the publications, which
appeared in some home Mass Media, according to which the name
of Viktor Soghomonyan was allegedly included in the list of the
"Prosperous Armenia" party under number 2. "I am tired of denying
this", V. Soghomonyan said.

Who Will Be The Ninth Of The District

WHO WILL BE THE NINTH OF THE DISTRICT

Panorama.am
17:02 06/02/2007

After the famous resolution of the Constitutional Court the seats
provided to judges in the commissions, were transferred to legal
servants. Head of Legal Department, Ashot Abovyan, was appointed the
member of the Central Electoral Committee by a relevant decree of
the President of Armenia.

However, discussions are being conducted on who will be appointed in
about 2000 commissions, what is the number of legal servants, and will
be their number sufficient for being represented in all the election
districts. For the purpose of getting clarifications "Im iravunk"
applied to the Cassation Court. As the press secretary of the Court,
Alina Yengoyan, said, according to the approved name list of the
Board of Courts, the number of the staff of legal servants is 655,
out of which 50 places are vacant.

In this case in how many elections districts will representatives of
the legal department be appointed?

Alina Yengoyan assured that legal servants would be appointed only in
central and regional electoral commissions. Only 42 legal servants
will be needed for it. Alina Yengoyan found it difficult to answer
who will be appointed in the commissions of polling stations.

Editorial: Turkish Law On ‘Insults’ An Insult To Turkishness

EDITORIAL: TURKISH LAW ON ‘INSULTS’ AN INSULT TO TURKISHNESS

San Antonio Express, TX
Feb 6 2007

Sometimes an end can signal a beginning.

Such should be the case with the recent assassination of Hrant Dink.

Dink, an Armenian Turk, was shot to death last month outside the
Istanbul offices of his bilingual newspaper, Agos.

Many suspect his death is connected to his outspoken references to a
painful event in Turkey’s history: the 1915 mass killing of Armenians
by Ottoman forces.

Armenians call the slaughter genocide, while Turkish nationalists
deny the label.

Turkey has a sorry record of accusing citizens who refer to the
killing of Armenians of violating Article 301 of the criminal code.

The offense? Insulting Turkishness.

Orhan Pamuk, the winner of last year’s Nobel Prize for literature,
went on trial in 2005, and last year, novelist Elif Shafak was charged
when a character in her novel referred to the event as genocide.

Pamuk’s charges were dropped, and Shafak was acquitted.

Dink, convicted in 2005, was not so lucky.

Shortly after Dink’s death, columnist Ertugrul Ozkok, in the Turkish
newspaper Hurriyet, urged an end to the century-old warring between
Armenians and Turks.

"People need to stop accusing each other of being traitors to the
nation, of being this and being that. And on the other side, people
have to stop labeling those who express their love for country and flag
‘racists fascists.’"

Some of that unity was seen during Dink’s funeral, as thousands
marched holding signs reading "We are all Armenians."

Turkey is facing international pressure to repudiate the law.

It should, because it’s the right thing to do. If the European Union
aspirant hopes to gain entry into the international bloc, it must
fix its atrocious record on free speech.

rials/stories/MYSA020607.01O.Turkey2ed.c148a2.html

http://www.mysanantonio.com/opinion/edito

Turks Ask For Jewish Help On Armenia

TURKS ASK FOR JEWISH HELP ON ARMENIA

Jewish Telegraphic Agency, NY
Feb 6 2007

Turkey’s foreign minister asked U.S. Jewish leaders to lobby against
a resolution that would label the 1915 mass killings of Armenians
as genocide.

Abdullah Gul met for 90 minutes Monday night with representatives
of the United Jewish Communities federation umbrella group, American
Jewish Committee, Anti-Defamation League, Jewish Institute for National
Security Affairs, American Jewish Congress, Chabad-Lubavitch, B’nai
B’rith International and the Orthodox Union.

He asked for assistance in facing down legislation sponsored by Rep.
Adam Schiff (D-Calif.), who is Jewish and who has a substantial
Armenian-American constituency.

Schiff’s resolution has garnered 169 co-sponsors.

Gul and the Jewish leaders also discussed U.S.-Turkish relations,
Israeli-Turkish relations, Jewish-Muslim relations and the Turkish
Jewish community.

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BAKU: Council Of Europe Top Official Says Relations With Azerbaijan

COUNCIL OF EUROPE TOP OFFICIAL SAYS RELATIONS WITH AZERBAIJAN "EXCELLENT"

Trend news agency
5 Feb 07

Baku, 5 February, Trend correspondent Qasimova: Trend’s exclusive
interview with Council of Europe Secretary-General Terry Davis.

[Correspondent] What is your assessment of the current level of
and prospects for the development of bilateral cooperation with
Azerbaijan? What is your assessment of Azerbaijan’s fulfilment of
the commitments it undertook when it joined the Council of Europe?

[Davis] We have excellent relations, open and ready for
cooperation. Here, at the Council of Europe, we believe in dialogue
and exchange of opinions. We are focused on our relations with the
countries of the South Caucasus which is one of the priority regions
at the moment.

The Council of Europe has a programme for comprehensive cooperation
with Azerbaijan in all main areas. I feel this is already yielding
specific positive results. Certainly, we can make our cooperation
even more effective.

Recently we witnessed a crisis related to the functioning of the media
in Azerbaijan and therefore we think that successes in developing
these relations may be achieved on the basis of freedom of the press
and its correct functioning. We also hope that the judicial system
in the country will improve.

[passage omitted: Davis says Council of Europe membership means
establishment of democracy and human rights protection]

[Correspondent] Many thought of the year 2006 as "a window of
opportunities" for the achievement of progress and signing of a peace
treaty on the Nagornyy Karabakh conflict. What do you think further
prospects for the conflict settlement are?

[Davis] I think that there always is a window of opportunities when
there is a political desire to resolve the issue. I also understand
that agreement has been achieved on many basic principles [of conflict
resolution]. I can only support the sides [Azerbaijan and Armenia]
in making the crucial step concerning a peace treaty.

It should also be noted that both Azerbaijan and Armenia pledged to
peacefully resolve the Nagornyy Karabakh conflict after they joined
the Council of Europe. That is a mandatory condition.

[Correspondent] The OSCE Minsk Group has been dealing with the
resolution of the conflict for 10 years now but no specific results
have been achieved yet.

Does this not speak of the fact that the OSCE’s opportunities for
the conflict resolution are exhausted, and it is time for other
international organizations, including the Council of Europe, too,
to get actively involved in the issue?

[Davis] First of all, the resolution of the conflict depends on the
two countries. It is in their own interest to resolve the conflict
peacefully. Ever since the Minsk Group showed new dynamism in the
peace process in the past six months, I took interest in why everyone
thinks that the mechanism of resolution should be changed. The OSCE
Minsk group is a connecting link and is very well familiar with all
aspects of this complicated conflict.

Upper Parliamentary House’s Chairman Meets With Armenian Ambassador

UPPER PARLIAMENTARY HOUSE’S CHAIRMAN MEETS WITH ARMENIAN AMBASSADOR

Áåëîðoñ& #xF1;eèå íîâîñòè, Belarus
Feb 5 2007

Henadz Navitski, chairman of the National Assembly’s Council of
the Republic, met with Armenian Ambassador Oleg Yesayan in Minsk on
February 5.

"Armenia is a strategic partner of Belarus, which is evidenced
by regular meetings between the heads of state and government,"
Mr. Navitski said at the meeting.

The chairman of Belarus’ upper parliamentary house expressed a high
opinion of the activities of inter-governmental and inter-parliamentary
commissions formed for developing bilateral ties.

Mr. Navitski noted that two-way trade had risen tenfold since 2000,
lauding cooperation between Belarus and Armenia within international
organizations and a 55-agreement legal framework governing the
bilateral relationship.

The diplomat, for his part, described relations between the Belarusian
and Armenian peoples as "traditionally brotherly." He said that Minsk
and Yerevan share views on many international problems, adding that
Armenia plans to develop cooperation with Belarus in all spheres.

The countries established diplomatic relations on June 11, 1993.

Armenia ranks seventh among CIS countries in terms of trade with
Belarus. In 2006, bilateral trade grew by 57.7 percent to $23.6
million. Belarus supplies Armenia with trucks, tires, road construction
machinery, special-purpose vehicles, plywood and matches, and imports
mainly alcoholic beverages from the country, told BelaPAN.

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ANKARA: Armenian lobby hits back with Time’s help

Today’s Zaman, Turkey
Jan 3 2007

Armenian lobby hits back with Time’s help

Time magazine on Friday released a 52-minute documentary by French
director Laurence Jourdan on the Armenian `genocide.’
With a full-page advertisement by `a coalition of Armenian Groups,’
the DVD also includes a 46-minute interview with Dr. Yves Ternon on
the Armenian `genocide.’ The DVD and the advertisement have been paid
for by Time, according to European Armenian Federation.
Delighted with Time’s reaction, the Armenian lobby announced that
Michael Elliot, the director of Time International, had said Time had
decided to call the 1915 events a genocide and called on all editors
and correspondents to describe 1915 only as a genocide.
Time’s decision to distribute the DVD came after a CD made by the
Ankara Chamber of Commerce last year was distributed by Time.
According to the European Armenian Federation, Time decided to
correct this mistake and agreed to financially back and distribute
the documentary.
The distribution of 550,000 copies with the European edition of Time
comes in the wake of the assassination of Hrant Dink. In addition,
while a French bill criminalizing the denial of an Armenian genocide
is awaiting Senate approval, EU term president Germany has proposed a
pan-European law to imprison deniers of genocide, war crimes and
crimes against humanity.
There are serious allegations in the one-page advertisement, which
are considered to be baseless by Ankara. Some of them are:
`Who after all, speaks today of the annihilation of the Armenians?’
Hitler posed this question on Aug. 22, 1939 before embarking on the
Holocaust.
The New York Times, the Los Angeles Times, the Boston Globe, the
Montreal Gazette and Time magazine call 1915 a genocide.
The UN Sub-Commission on Prevention of Discrimination and Protection
of Minorities and over a dozen European countries affirmed that the
1915 events were a genocide.

03.02.2007

Selçuk Gültaþlý Brussels

Armenie : loi contre genocide

Le Monde, France
2 février 2007 vendredi

Arménie : loi contre génocide

Le négationnisme est le stade suprême du génocide. C’est vrai de
l’Arménie comme de la Shoah. Il est essentiel que le législateur
empêche l’effacement de cette mémoire

On dit : " Ce n’est pas à la loi d’écrire l’Histoire "… Absurde.
Car l’Histoire est déjà écrite. Que les Arméniens aient été victimes,
au sens précis du terme, d’une tentative de génocide, c’est-à-dire
d’une entreprise planifiée d’annihilation, Churchill l’a dit. Jaurès
l’a crié. Péguy, au moment même où il s’engage pour Dreyfus, parle de
ce commencement de génocide comme du " plus grand massacre du siècle
". Les Turcs eux-mêmes l’admettent. Oui, c’est une chose que l’on ne
sait pas assez : dès 1918, Mustapha Kemal reconnaît les tueries
perpétrées par le gouvernement jeune-turc ; des cours martiales sont
instituées ; elles prononcent des centaines de sentences de mort. Et
je ne parle pas des historiens ni des théoriciens du génocide, je ne
parle pas des chercheurs de Yad Vachem, ni de Yehuda Bauer, ni de
Raoul Hilberg, je ne parle pas de tous ces savants pour qui, à
l’exception de Bernard Lewis, la question de savoir s’il y a eu, ou
non, génocide ne s’est jamais posée et ne se pose pas.

Il ne s’agit pas de " dire l’Histoire ", donc. L’Histoire a été dite.
Elle a été redite et archi-dite. Ce dont il est question, c’est
d’empêcher sa négation. Ce dont le Sénat va discuter, c’est de
compliquer, un peu, la vie aux insulteurs. Il y a des lois, en
France, contre l’insulte et la diffamation. N’est-ce pas la moindre
des choses d’avoir une loi qui pénalise cette insulte absolue, cet
outrage qui passe tous les outrages et qui consiste à outrager la
mémoire des morts ?

On dit : " Oui, d’accord ; mais la loi n’a pas à se mêler, si peu que
ce soit, de l’établissement de la vérité car elle empêche,
lorsqu’elle le fait, les historiens de travailler. " Faux. C’est le
contraire. Ce sont les négationnistes qui empêchent les historiens de
travailler. Ce sont les négationnistes qui, avec leurs truquages,
brouillent les pistes. Prenez la loi Gayssot. Citez-moi un cas
d’historien, un seul, que la loi Gayssot, sanctionnant la négation de
la destruction des juifs, ait empêché de travailler.

C’est une loi qui empêche Le Pen ou Gollnisch de trop déraper. C’est
une loi qui met des limites à l’expression d’un Faurisson. C’est une
loi qui gêne les incendiaires des mes type Dieudonné. C’est une loi
qui, par parenthèse, nous évite des mascarades du type de ce procès
du super-négationniste David Irving qui eut lieu à Londres il y a
sept ans et où, précisément faute de loi, l’on vit juges, procureurs,
avocats, journalistes à scandale, affairés à se substituer aux
historiens et à semer, pour de bon, le trouble dans les esprits. Mais
c’est une loi qui ne s’est jamais mise en travers de la route d’un
seul historien digne de ce nom. C’est une loi qui, contrairement à ce
que nous disent, je n’arrive pas à comprendre pourquoi, les "
historiens pétitionnaires ", les protège, oui, les protège de la
pollution négationniste. Et il en ira de même avec l’extension de
cette loi Gayssot à la négation du génocide arménien.

On dit : " Où s’arrêtera-t-on ? Pourquoi pas, tant qu’on y est, des
lois sur le colonialisme, la Vendée, les caricatures de Mahomet ?
Est-ce qu’on ne s’oriente pas vers des dizaines de lois mémorielles
dont le seul résultat sera d’interdire l’expression des opinions non
conformes ? " Autre erreur. Autre piège. D’abord, il n’est pas
question de " lois mémorielles ", mais de génocide ; il n’est pas
question de légiférer sur tout et n’importe quoi, mais sur les
génocides et les génocides seulement ; et des génocides, il n’y en a
pas cent, ni dix – il y en a quatre, peut-être cinq, avec le Rwanda,
le Cambodge et le Darfour, et c’est une escroquerie intellectuelle de
brandir l’épouvantail de cette multiplication de nouvelles lois
attentatoires à la liberté de pensée.

Et puis, ensuite, soyons sérieux : il n’est pas question, dans cette
affaire, d’opinions non conformes, incorrectes, etc. ; il est
question de négationnisme, seulement de négationnisme, c’est-à-dire
de ce tour d’esprit très particulier qui consiste non pas à avoir une
certaine opinion quant aux raisons de la victoire d’Hitler ou des
Jeunes-Turcs, mais qui consiste à dire que le réel n’a pas eu lieu.
Pas de chantage, donc, à la tyrannie de la pénitence ! Arrêtons avec
le faux argument de la boîte de Pandore ouvrant la voie à une
inquisition généralisée ! Le fait que l’on punisse le négationnisme
antiarménien n’impliquera en aucune façon cette fameuse
prolifération, en métastases, de lois politiquement correctes.

On dit encore : " Attention à ne pas tout mélanger ; il ne faut pas
prendre le risque de banaliser la Shoah. " Ma réponse, là-dessus, est
très claire. Il est vrai que ce n’est pas pareil. Il est vrai que, et
le nombre de ses morts, et le degré d’irrationalité atteint par les
assassins, et le type très particulier de rapport à la technique
qu’implique l’invention de la chambre à gaz, il est vrai, oui, que
tout cela confère à la Shoah une irréductible singularité. Mais, à
cette évidence, j’ajoute deux remarques.

Primo, ce n’est peut-être pas " pareil ", mais le moins que l’on
puisse dire est que cela se ressemble. Et le premier à le savoir, le
premier à en prendre acte, fut un certain Adolf Hitler, dont on ne
dira jamais assez combien le génocide antiarménien l’a frappé, fait
réfléchir et, si j’ose dire, inspiré. Ce génocide arménien, ce
premier génocide, le fut – " premier " – à tous les sens du terme :
un génocide exemplaire et presque séminal ; un génocide banc d’essai
; un laboratoire du génocide considéré comme tel par les nazis.

Et puis j’ajoute, secundo, cette autre observation. Lorsque je me
suis plongé dans la littérature négationniste touchant les Arméniens,
quelle ne fut pas ma surprise de découvrir que c’est la même
littérature, littéralement la même, que celle que je connaissais et
qui vise la destruction des juifs. Même rhétorique. Mêmes arguments.
Même façon, tantôt de minimiser (des morts, d’accord, mais pas tant
qu’on nous le dit), tantôt de rationaliser (des massacres qui
s’inscrivent dans une logique de guerre), tantôt de renverser les
rôles (de même que Céline faisait des juifs les vrais responsables de
la guerre, de même les négationnistes turcs expliquent que ce sont
les Arméniens qui, par leur double jeu, leur alliance avec les
Russes, ont fait leur propre martyre), tantôt, enfin, de relativiser
(quelle différence entre Auschwitz et Dresde ? quelle différence
entre les génocidés et les victimes turques des " bandes armées "
arméniennes ?)

Bref. A ceux qui seraient tentés de jouer au jeu de la guerre des
mémoires, je veux répondre en plaidant pour la fraternité des
génocidés. C’est la position de Jan Patocka, le philosophe de la "
solidarité des ébranlés ". C’était la position des pionniers
d’Israël, qui, tous, se sentaient un destin commun avec les Arméniens
naufragés. La lutte contre le négationnisme ne se divise pas. Laisser
une chance à l’un équivaudrait à ouvrir une brèche à l’autre…

On dit enfin – et cela se veut l’argument définitif : " Pourquoi ne
pas laisser la vérité se défendre seule ? N’est-elle pas assez forte
pour s’imposer et faire mentir les négationnistes ? " Eh bien non,
justement ! Parce que ce négationnisme anti-arménien a une
particularité que l’on ne trouve pas, pour le coup, dans le
négationnisme judéocide : c’est un négationnisme d’Etat ; c’est un
négationnisme qui s’appuie sur les ressources, la diplomatie, la
capacité de chantage, d’un grand Etat.

Imaginez un instant ce qu’eût été la situation des survivants de la
Shoah si l’Etat allemand avait été, après la guerre, un Etat
négationniste ! Imaginez leur surcroît de détresse s’ils avaient eu,
face à eux, une Allemagne non repentante menaçant ses partenaires de
rétorsions s’ils qualifiaient de génocide la tragédie des hommes,
femmes et enfants triés sur la rampe d’Auschwitz ! C’est votre
situation, amis arméniens ; et il y a là une adversité qui n’a, cette
fois, pas d’équivalent et à laquelle je ne suis pas sûr que la
vérité, dans sa belle nudité, ait assez de force pour s’opposer.

Un tout dernier mot. Vous vous souvenez d’Himmler créant, en juin
1942, un commando spécial, le commando 1005, chargé de déterrer les
corps et de les brûler. Vous connaissez les euphémismes utilisés pour
ne pas avoir à dire " meurtre de masse " et pour effacer donc, jusque
dans le discours, la marque de ce qui était en train de s’opérer.

Eh bien, cette loi qui est celle de la Shoah, ce théorème que
j’appelle le théorème de Claude Lanzmann et qui veut que le crime
parfait soit un crime sans trace et que l’effacement de la trace soit
partie intégrante du crime lui-même, cette évidence d’un
négationnisme qui n’est pas la suite mais un moment du génocide et
qui lui est consubstantiel, tout cela vaut pour tous les génocides et
donc aussi, naturellement, pour le génocide du peuple arménien. On
croit que ces gens expriment une opinion : ils perpétuent le crime.
Ils se veulent libres-penseurs, apôtres du doute et du soupçon : ils
parachèvent l’oeuvre de mort.

Il faut une loi contre le négationnisme parce que le négationnisme
est, au sens strict, le stade suprême du génocide.

Bernard-Henri Lévy

Ecrivain