PARTICIPANTS OF NK WAR HELD PROTEST ACTION IN FRONT OF FRENCH EMBASSY IN AZERBAIJAN
Author: S.Ilhamgizi
TREND Information, Azerbaijan
Oct 16 2006
On 16 October, a protest, initiated by the Karabakh Liberation
Organization (KLO), the Society of Karabakh Invalids (SKI) and the
Organization War Veterans (OWT), was held outside the French Embassy
in Baku. Although the protest was stopped, it was possible to submit
the resolution of the action to the French Embassy, Trend reports.
18 protestors were detained, but later released. Three participants
are still in the Sabail District Police Department No. 39.
The protesters demanded the annulment of the law penalizing denial
of the so-called “Armenian genocide”, for the French President and
Parliament to apologize to the Azeri and Turkish citizens, to stop
the activity of the French Embassy in Azerbaijan and to expel Armenia
from the co-chairmanship in OSCE Minsk Group.

ARMENIAN PATRIARCH IN TURKEY SLAMS FRENCH GENOCIDE BILL
AKI, Italy
Oct 16 2006
Istanbul, 16 Oct. (AKI) – The Armenian Patriarch of Constantinople
(Istanbul) Mesrop Mutafyan has criticised last week’s decision by
France’s lower house of parliament to approve a vote which would make
it an offence to deny that the massacre of Armenians under Ottoman
rule was a genocide. “Ultra-nationalist groups will benefit from the
draft that the French Parliament had approved and a risky period will
start,” Mesrop said in an interview with Turkish newspaper Milliyet
published on Monday.
“I’m concerned that the hard-won bridges between Turks and Armenians
will collapse after this draft”, he said.
Though small the Armenian Patriarchate of Constantinople has exerted an
influential role among Orthodox churches. It represented the largest
Christian community in Turkey.
Last week’s vote by the French lower house has provoked angry reaction
in Turkey.
Some shops and supermarkets in various cities have stopped selling
French products. A private language school in the city of Konya
removed French courses from its programme and some travel agencies
cancelled their tours to Paris originally scheduled for the 3-day
end-of-Ramadan holiday later this month.
“I don’t want to name what has happened in 1915. Tragic things have
happened. The Nationalist Ottoman party has role on that issue, the
seperatist motives of Armenians have a role as have the policies of
Western countries have role on that,” Patriarch Mesrop said in the
Milliyet interview.
“The Armenians living abroad put all their efforts to win official
recognition for the ‘genocide’. They also do not take our views into
account. We Armenians living in Turkey support dialogue and peace.
But the disapora think that we are forced to say these things since
they think we are hostages”, he said.

EESHA FINISHES FIFTH IN WORLD JUNIOR CHESS
Indiatimes, India
Oct 16 2006
YEREVAN (ARMENIA), Oct 16: Woman Grandmaster Eesha Karavade finished
fifth after drawing her final game with Mongontuul Bathuyag of
Mongolia in the 13th and final round of the World Junior Girls’
chess championship that concluded.
WGM Shen Yang of China won the gold after coming out with a brilliant
performance against WGM D Harika in the final game. It turned out
to be a four-way tie at the top between Shen Yang, her compatriot
Hou Yifan, Bathuyag and Melia Salome of Georgia who all scored an
identical 9 points from 13 games played here.
The tiebreaker confirmed Shen Yang’s victory as she had played the
best opposition here. The silver went to Yifan while Salome won the
bronze medal for her efforts. Despite leading in the first half and
the only one here to beat Shen Yang and hou Yifan, Bathuyag had to
be content with the fourth place.
Eesha ended on 8.5 points for the fifth spot where she had company
of compatriot Mary Ann Gomes, Atousa Pourkashiyan of Iran Anna Rudolf
of Hungary. Amongst the 8.5 pointers Mary was most impressive in the
final round cruising past Diana Arutyunova of Ukraine.
Out of seven in the fray, four Indian girls found themselves in the
top ten bracket with Harika and WGM Tania Sachdev finishing 9th and
10th respectively. Soumya Swaminathan and Kruttika Nadig ended their
stint on 7 points while P Priya finsihed on 6 points.
In the open section that concluded simultaneously, International
Master Zaven Andriasian of Armenia annexed the title after taking a
draw with Grandmaster levan Pantsulaia of Georgia.
The Armenian scored 9.5 points in all and remained half a point adrift
of nearest contenders Pantsulaia, Nikita Vitiugov of Russia and Yuriy
Kryvoruchko of Ukriane.
After the ties were resolved, Vitiugov got the silver while Kryvoruchko
won the bronze. It turned out to be another mediocre performance for
the Indian boys as Grandmaster Deepan Chakravarthy was held to a draw
by Sergei Matsenko of Russia, birthday boy Abhijeet Gupta signed
peace with Le Quang Liem of Vietnam and Rahul Sangma achieved the
same result in quick time against Daan Brandenburg of Holland.
GM norm holder Deep Sengupta ended on the losing side against Li
Chao of China. Amongst four Indians in the fray here both Abhijeet
and Deepan ended on 7 points while the remaining two were a half
point behind.
Despite trying hard, Eesha could not squeeze out the defensive
resources of Bathuyag who played white. Opting for the Sicilian
Nazdorf Eesha was up against the English attack and it was a tense
battle right from the word go.
When the middle game surfaced Bathuyag declared her peaceful intentions
by going for the repetition but Eesha relentlessly tried even at the
cost of getting a worse position.
However, in the endgame the pawns got traded at regular intervals and
the draw was agreed to after 49 moves. Harika was the other Indian in
with a chance to win the medal but she could not match the guile of
Shen Yang who played a finely crafted game in the Slav Chelyabinsk
variation. “I just played badly today and it was a one sided game”,
said Harika who was unbeaten till the final day.

‘TURKEY DISCRIMINATED AGAINST CONSCIOUSLY’
Zaman, Turkey
Oct 16 2006
Democratic Leftist Party (DSP) chairman Zeki Sezer claimed that the
French parliament’s passing of the bill penalizing a denial of an
Armenian Genocide was not a “mental lapse ” as previously claimed,
but part of a conscious and discriminative policy against Turkey.
Sezer issued a press release evaluating Prime Minister Recep Tayyip
Erdogan’s comment stating that France had experienced a “mental lapse.”
Sezer said neglecting France’s attitude would be a fatal mistake and
added that Turkey could not be alert enough against possible dangers,
and should prepare for them in advance.
The DSP Leader said French President Jacques Chirac explained he
would do his best to prevent the bill’s acceptance, though he noted
“The French President did not say a word while the bill was passing
through parliament.”

11TH SESSION OF ARMENIA-RUSSIA INTER PARLIAMENTARY COOPERATION COMMITTEE IN YEREVAN
National Assembly, Armenia
Oct 16 2006
On October 17, the 11th session of the Armenia-Russia Inter
Parliamentary Cooperation Commission will take place in Yerevan,
the results of which will be summed up with a press conference.
The same day the President of the Republic of Armenia Mr. Robert
Kocharyan and the Prime Minister of the Republic of Armenia Mr.
Andranik Margaryan will receive the Co-President of the Armenia-Russia
Inter Parliamentary Cooperation Commission Mr. Nikolay Rizhkov.
On October 18 Garegin II, Supreme Patriarch, Catholicos of All
Armenians will receive the members of the delegation in Holy See
Echmiadzin.
On October 19 the delegation will return to Moscow.

TURKEY ANGERED BY FRENCH BILL ON ARMENIANS
United Press International
Oct 16 2006
The French parliament’s decision to make it a crime to deny that
Armenians were victims of genocide by Turkey during World War I has
deeply upset Turks.
The parliament approved the measure last week. The bill now goes to
the Senate.
The Turkish resentment is so strong, says the International Herald
Tribune, it has dampened enthusiasm over the awarding of the Nobel
Prize for Literature to Turkish novelist Orhan Pamuk.
Pamuk himself had gone on trial before the case was dismissed on
charges of “insulting Turkishness” for reportedly saying 1 million
Armenians died in Turkey during World War I.
Turkey accepts many Armenians died during the collapse of the Ottoman
Empire but rejects the genocide accusation.
The Nobel award comes at a time when most Turks would rather forget
the Armenian killings. Turkey is also currently involved in delicate
negotiations over its membership in the European Union, for which
there is already much opposition in France.
“The EU wants any excuse to keep out Muslim Turkey and the Armenia
issue is just the latest example,” a social worker who took part
in a weekend protest in Istanbul against the French bill told the
Herald Tribune.

HUSEYNOV: I TOLD EDWARD O’HARA THAT THERE WAS NOT ARMENIAN CROSSES IN NAKHCHIVAN
Azeri Press Agency, Azerbaijan
Oct 16 2006
“The delegation organized by COE General Secretary Terry Davis is more
reliable, because it includes different experts from different fields.
They will investigate cultural heritage of Azerbaijan, Georgia and
Armenia,” Rafael Huseynov, the member of Azerbaijani delegation to
COE told journalists, APA reports. He said the experts are expected
to visit the region soon. Huseynov also mentioned that Terry
Devis mission’s visit to Azerbaijan before South Caucasus cultural
co-rapporteur Edward O’Hara interests Azerbaijan. “The mission can
arrive at more objective truth. Their decision can impact on the
decision of the co- rapporteur. Terry Devis was expected to visit
the region in October, but the visit was postponed because of more
than enough composition of the delegation members.
Huseynov said O’Hara planned to visit Azerbaijan together with the
mission organized by Terry Devis. The visit was postponed, because
Armenian Parliament appealed to PACE.
“They stated in their report that Azerbaijanis razed Armenian crosses
in Nakhchivan. I am the member of the same commission. I told him
that there were Alban monuments, but not Armenian ones. I also said
that they have razed Azerbaijan monuments and still continue to. I
convinced him to visit not only Azerbaijan, but also Armenia and
Nagorno Garabagh. Now he plans to visit Azerbaijan, Armenia and
Georgia,” he said.
Huseynov said O’Hara plans to visit the region at the end of the year,
but the visit in the spring of the next year is not excluded too.
From: Emil Lazarian | Ararat NewsPress

TURKS SEETHING OVER FRENCH BILL ON GENOCIDE
By Dan Bilefsky International Herald Tribune
International Herald Tribune, France
Oct 16 2006
ISTANBUL Anger over the French Parliament’s approval of a bill making
it a crime to deny that Armenians were victims of genocide is so
potent here that even national pride in the news that the novelist
Orhan Pamuk had been awarded a Nobel Prize was tinged with resentment.
“A great moment for Turkey has been made sour,” Sinan Ulgen, a Turkish
commentator, said over the weekend. “That it happened on the same
day the French law was adopted is seen by some as a slap in the face.”
Pamuk went on trial in January on charges of “insulting Turkishness”
after he said in comments published in a Swiss newspaper that one
million Armenians had died in Turkey during World War I. The case
was later dismissed on a technicality. While Pamuk’s status as a
cultural hero in Turkey has been cemented by the Nobel Prize, he
remains a nemesis to many critics for drawing worldwide attention to
a historical taboo that many Turks would like to forget.
About 100 demonstrators gathered outside the French Consulate in
Istanbul on Sunday, several pelting it with eggs to protest the French
bill, which was approved Thursday by the National Assembly and now
goes to the Senate.
“The EU wants any excuse to keep out Muslim Turkey, and the Armenia
issue is just the latest example,” Oznur Tufan, a 30-year-old social
worker, said as she passed the barricaded consulate. A policeman added,
“Some Turks now want to make France an enemy.”
Ankara has rejected calls for an all- out boycott of French goods,
but Turkish officials say some lawmakers are considering retaliatory
measures, including blocking French defense and energy companies from
bidding for Turkish contracts. Ordinary Turks speak of making their
own symbolic protests, like selling their Peugeots.
Such talk reflects the visceral indignation over what many Turks see
as the hypocrisy of France, a country that they say claims to uphold
free speech but is using the genocide bill to try to limit it.
Pamuk captured the national mood Friday when he said, “Freedom of
expression is a French discovery, and this law is contrary to the
culture of freedom of expression.”
Turkey acknowledges that a large number of Armenians died during the
collapse of the Ottoman Empire in World War I, but it rejects the
contention that the deaths constitute genocide. Armenians argue that
as many as 1.5 million of their ancestors were victims of a systematic
genocide between 1915 and 1923. The topic is so sensitive here that
it is largely glossed over in official history books.
Beyond reopening a historical wound, analysts say, the consequences
of the French law could go far deeper – undermining Turkey’s political
reforms, which are already on shaky ground, and intensifying a backlash
against the European Union at a time when support for joining the
bloc has reached an all- time low. The EU has been pressing Turkey to
improve its human rights record, in particular insisting that Ankara
remove an article from its penal code that has led to the prosecution
of Turks for insulting Turkish identity.
French officials say President Jacques Chirac is fuming over the French
bill, which he fears could divide his already squabbling conservative
party while pushing Turkey away from democratic reforms.
On Saturday, Chirac telephoned Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan
to say he understood why Turks were so upset.
But Chirac and the two leading contenders to replace him as president –
Nicolas Sarkozy and Segolène Royal – have also called for Turkey to
acknowledge the Armenian genocide, or risk undermining its chances
of joining the European Union.
Such demands have done little to mollify the growing anger here.
Many Turkish critics of the French bill warn that the measure could
backfire by playing into the hands of nationalists who argue that
reforms, including laws encouraging free speech and better rights
for minorities, are a step too far.
The author Elif Shafak, who was recently put on trial because
characters in her latest novel, “The Bastard of Istanbul,” say that
the Armenians were massacred, contends that the French law risks
emboldening forces in Turkey “who staunchly oppose Turkey’s EU bid
and would like to keep the country as an insular, xenophobic nation
cut off from the West.”
The French legislation has already strengthened nationalist voices
and weakened the governing Justice and Development Party of Erdogan,
who has referred to the French bill as a “systematic lie machine” and
is pressing for difficult economic and political reforms before an
election year. After the bill’s adoption, Onur Oymen, deputy leader
of the opposition Republican People’s Party, and Sukru Elekdag, a
former ambassador to Washington, called for Turkey to retaliate by
deporting 70,000 Armenian residents living in Turkey.
The Turkish Parliament’s Justice Committee, meanwhile, has discussed
a retaliatory law that would make it illegal to deny that France
was responsible for a colonial-era genocide in Algeria, which France
ruled from 1830 to 1962.
Others, however, including prominent members of the Justice and
Development Party, have pleaded for restraint. Addressing a town hall
meeting in Gocek, a seaside town on Turkey’s southern coast, Egemen
Bagis, a Justice and Development lawmaker and a senior adviser to
Erdogan, told the crowd that it should not “match France’s mistake”
by caving in to intolerance.
Bagis added that the adoption of the bill reflected the limits of
Turkish immigrants in France. Many here question why France’s small
but influential Armenian population was able to lobby for the bill
while France’s unassimilated Turks looked on. “This is a mistake for
France, but it is also our mistake,” Bagis told the crowd, “While
Armenians can influence the debate, Turks have not assimilated as
much as the Armenians, and they need to be active players in France
by being more integrated.”
But Ismet Yilmazer, an 80-year old nightclub owner, retorted that
democracy was “upside down if a country like France, with more than
60 million people, adopts a law to get the vote of 450,000 French
Armenians.”
Turkish officials said the law had a particular sting in a country
whose founder, Kemal Ataturk, had modeled the modern Turkish Republic
on France, insisting, like France, on a separation between religion
and the state.
“It is unacceptable that France, the country of ‘Egalite, Fraternite,
Liberte,’ should tell us what we can and cannot say,” said Zeynep
Damla Gurel, a lawmaker from the opposition Republican People’s
Party. “It’s not for another country to dictate to us our history.”
ISTANBUL Anger over the French Parliament’s approval of a bill making
it a crime to deny that Armenians were victims of genocide is so
potent here that even national pride in the news that the novelist
Orhan Pamuk had been awarded a Nobel Prize was tinged with resentment.
“A great moment for Turkey has been made sour,” Sinan Ulgen, a Turkish
commentator, said over the weekend. “That it happened on the same
day the French law was adopted is seen by some as a slap in the face.”
Pamuk went on trial in January on charges of “insulting Turkishness”
after he said in comments published in a Swiss newspaper that one
million Armenians had died in Turkey during World War I. The case
was later dismissed on a technicality. While Pamuk’s status as a
cultural hero in Turkey has been cemented by the Nobel Prize, he
remains a nemesis to many critics for drawing worldwide attention to
a historical taboo that many Turks would like to forget.
About 100 demonstrators gathered outside the French Consulate in
Istanbul on Sunday, several pelting it with eggs to protest the French
bill, which was approved Thursday by the National Assembly and now
goes to the Senate.
“The EU wants any excuse to keep out Muslim Turkey, and the Armenia
issue is just the latest example,” Oznur Tufan, a 30-year-old social
worker, said as she passed the barricaded consulate. A policeman added,
“Some Turks now want to make France an enemy.”
Ankara has rejected calls for an all- out boycott of French goods,
but Turkish officials say some lawmakers are considering retaliatory
measures, including blocking French defense and energy companies from
bidding for Turkish contracts. Ordinary Turks speak of making their
own symbolic protests, like selling their Peugeots.
Such talk reflects the visceral indignation over what many Turks see
as the hypocrisy of France, a country that they say claims to uphold
free speech but is using the genocide bill to try to limit it.
Pamuk captured the national mood Friday when he said, “Freedom of
expression is a French discovery, and this law is contrary to the
culture of freedom of expression.”
Turkey acknowledges that a large number of Armenians died during the
collapse of the Ottoman Empire in World War I, but it rejects the
contention that the deaths constitute genocide. Armenians argue that
as many as 1.5 million of their ancestors were victims of a systematic
genocide between 1915 and 1923. The topic is so sensitive here that
it is largely glossed over in official history books.
Beyond reopening a historical wound, analysts say, the consequences
of the French law could go far deeper – undermining Turkey’s political
reforms, which are already on shaky ground, and intensifying a backlash
against the European Union at a time when support for joining the
bloc has reached an all- time low. The EU has been pressing Turkey to
improve its human rights record, in particular insisting that Ankara
remove an article from its penal code that has led to the prosecution
of Turks for insulting Turkish identity.
French officials say President Jacques Chirac is fuming over the French
bill, which he fears could divide his already squabbling conservative
party while pushing Turkey away from democratic reforms.
On Saturday, Chirac telephoned Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan
to say he understood why Turks were so upset.
But Chirac and the two leading contenders to replace him as president –
Nicolas Sarkozy and Segolène Royal – have also called for Turkey to
acknowledge the Armenian genocide, or risk undermining its chances
of joining the European Union.
Such demands have done little to mollify the growing anger here.
Many Turkish critics of the French bill warn that the measure could
backfire by playing into the hands of nationalists who argue that
reforms, including laws encouraging free speech and better rights
for minorities, are a step too far.
The author Elif Shafak, who was recently put on trial because
characters in her latest novel, “The Bastard of Istanbul,” say that
the Armenians were massacred, contends that the French law risks
emboldening forces in Turkey “who staunchly oppose Turkey’s EU bid
and would like to keep the country as an insular, xenophobic nation
cut off from the West.”
The French legislation has already strengthened nationalist voices
and weakened the governing Justice and Development Party of Erdogan,
who has referred to the French bill as a “systematic lie machine” and
is pressing for difficult economic and political reforms before an
election year. After the bill’s adoption, Onur Oymen, deputy leader
of the opposition Republican People’s Party, and Sukru Elekdag, a
former ambassador to Washington, called for Turkey to retaliate by
deporting 70,000 Armenian residents living in Turkey.
The Turkish Parliament’s Justice Committee, meanwhile, has discussed
a retaliatory law that would make it illegal to deny that France
was responsible for a colonial-era genocide in Algeria, which France
ruled from 1830 to 1962.
Others, however, including prominent members of the Justice and
Development Party, have pleaded for restraint. Addressing a town hall
meeting in Gocek, a seaside town on Turkey’s southern coast, Egemen
Bagis, a Justice and Development lawmaker and a senior adviser to
Erdogan, told the crowd that it should not “match France’s mistake”
by caving in to intolerance.
Bagis added that the adoption of the bill reflected the limits of
Turkish immigrants in France. Many here question why France’s small
but influential Armenian population was able to lobby for the bill
while France’s unassimilated Turks looked on. “This is a mistake for
France, but it is also our mistake,” Bagis told the crowd, “While
Armenians can influence the debate, Turks have not assimilated as
much as the Armenians, and they need to be active players in France
by being more integrated.”
But Ismet Yilmazer, an 80-year old nightclub owner, retorted that
democracy was “upside down if a country like France, with more than
60 million people, adopts a law to get the vote of 450,000 French
Armenians.”
Turkish officials said the law had a particular sting in a country
whose founder, Kemal Ataturk, had modeled the modern Turkish Republic
on France, insisting, like France, on a separation between religion
and the state.
“It is unacceptable that France, the country of ‘Egalite, Fraternite,
Liberte,’ should tell us what we can and cannot say,” said Zeynep
Damla Gurel, a lawmaker from the opposition Republican People’s
Party. “It’s not for another country to dictate to us our history.”
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ANKARA’S EU PROGRESS, ARMENIAN BILL TO DOMINATE TROIKA TALKS
The New Anatolian, Turkey
Oct 16 2006
Foreign Minister Abdullah Gul is braced for discussions during today’s
European Union-Turkey Troika meeting with three key issues on the
agenda, including Ankara’s progress in talks, the Finnish plan and
the French Parliament’s bill on the Armenian genocide claims.
Gul and senior EU officials will evaluate the future prospects of
Turkey’s membership bid, progress made in implementing reforms, the
screening process in the year since the beginning of talks and the
latest Greek and Greek Cypriot block during the key meeting which
will is being held in Luxembourg.
The plan proposed by Finland, which holds the rotating EU presidency,
aimed at avoiding a possible “train crash” in Turkey’s membership
talks, will also dominate the meeting.
The Finnish plan foresees the opening of the port of Famagusta
(Magosa) in Northern Cyprus under EU auspices in return for the Turkish
Parliament’s approval of the Ankara protocol, which paves the way for
the opening of Turkish ports and harbors to the Greek Cypriots. In
line with the plan, while the Turkish Cypriots would conduct direct
trade from Magosa, the Varosha (Maras) region, which is currently
under Turkish Cypriot control, would be under United Nations control.
Speaking to reporters ahead of his departure from Turkey, Gul told
reporters that Turkey welcomes all views proposed with good will,
referring to the Finnish plan. However, Gul stressed that this doesn’t
mean “Turkey accepting the unacceptable.”
Underlining that Turkey is not a directly concerned side in the Cyprus
dispute, but that the Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus (TRNC)
is, Gul urged the EU to discuss the latest initiatives with Turkish
Cypriot leaders to proceed in the Cyprus peace process. The foreign
minister also praised the latest visit of TRNC President Mehmet Ali
Talat to Brussels as a “positive” development.
While Gul is expected to underline the need to find solution to the
Cyprus problem under UN auspices, he will also urge the Union to end
the isolation of the Turkish Cypriots, which could pave the way for
Ankara to open its ports and harbors to the Greek Cypriots through
implementing the Ankara protocol.
The meeting is important since, according to sources, the results
could affect the final touches to the EU’s progress report, set to
be released on Nov 8.
The Turkish foreign minister will also bring the French Parliament’s
recent approval of a bill introducing prison terms and fines for those
who question the Armenian genocide claims to discussions during the
Troika meeting.
During the press conference before his departure, Gul said that he
would tell EU officials that by passing the Armenian bill the French
had already altered the Copenhagen criteria. Lamenting the current
state of Turkish-French relations, Gul said, “I hope France will
take the necessary measures in order not to shake the already shaken
relations and its own image.”
According to sources, besides expressing Turkey’s concerns on the
passage of the bill by the French Parliament, stressing that the
bill limits freedom of expression and also violates the EU’s basic
principles and its pressure on Ankara to amend Article 301 of the new
Turkish Penal Code (TCK), Gul is expected to praise how influential
EU officials, including Rehn, have opposed the bill.
Finnish Foreign Minister Erkki Tuomioja, German Foreign Minister
Frank Walter-Steinmeier, whose country will take over the rotating
EU presidency from Finland in January, European Commissioner for
Enlargement Olli Rehn and European foreign policy chief Javier Solana
will be among the participants of the key meeting. In the wake of
latest move by Greece and Greek Cyprus to block the opening of new
chapters in Turkey’s EU talks, Foreign Minister Gul is also expected
to visit Greece late next month to evaluate the latest developments
with Greek officials, the Greek Foreign Ministry announced on Friday.

STRIKE AT THE FRENCH LEGISLATION WITH A BRASSIERE
Karo Karapetyan
DeFacto Agency, Armenia
Oct 16 2006
A decision rendered by the French National Assembly on the criminal
persecution for the denial of the Armenian Genocide committed in
the Osmanian Empire has jarred on a young and pretty deputy of the
Azerbaijan’s Mill Majlis Ganira Pashaeva. She believes the Law is
against all the Turkic nationalities, first of all against Turks and
Azeris. Pashaeva (well-informed persons assert Ganira is a close
relative of Azerbaijan’s First Lady Mehriban Aliyeva, Pashaeva in
girlhood) affirms, “with the law France has closed the way to the
Turks and Azeris to the country and directly states, “we do not wish
to see you here”.
As “a retaliatory measure” Ganira Pashaeva suggests that all the
Armenians should be deported from Turkey. Besides, she proposes to
suppress the Europe’s tendency on the Armenian Genocide’s recognition
and criminal responsibility for its denial. To achieve the goal
“Azerbaijan and Turkey should oppose it together and pose the question
severely. First, Turkey should recognize a Genocide France committed
in Algiers. Then Turkey should recognize a Genocide committed by the
Armenians against the Azeris in Hojalu”. At the same time Ganira
“would show understanding to a boycott of the French goods by the
Azerbaijan’s ordinary citizens”. She “would also support such people,
as it is natural sentiments and France should feel it”.
Ganira is said to show the way the French goods should be boycotted
and France should feel before the astonished and a bit flabbergasted
journalists. With a graceful movement the young and ecstatic member
of Majlis put off the nice French brassier made of lacy batiste
and threw it to the waste-basket. To tell the truth, later some
concerned male journalists affirmed Ganira had put off a much more
intimate detail of her dress, not the innocent brassier, but we think
these are just dirty gossips. However, what we know for sure is the
response of another female deputy, who is also young and beautiful,
Gultekin Gajieva. Having heard of her colleague’s noble and patriotic
action she immediately took off not only her brassiere, but all the
underwear with a label Made in France. We don’t know if other women
of Azerbaijan will follow the real Turkic patriots’ example and what
perfume they are going to use.