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    FRENCH CONSTITUTIONAL COUNCIL REJECTS ARMENIAN GENOCIDE BILL

    Press TV
    Feb 28 2012
    Iran

    Turks protesting the Armenian genocide bill.

    The Constitutional Council of France has rejected a bill which aims
    to set a punishment for the denial of an Armenian genocide carried
    out by the Ottoman Empire in World War I, Press TV reports.

    This is while the controversial bill was approved by the French Senate
    last month.

    The bill has received harsh criticism from Turkey who says the bill
    is disrespectfull to all Turks.

    Ankara has also threatened broader diplomatic and trade sanctions
    against Paris as a result of the law.

    Meanwhile, French President Nicolas Sarkozy says he will redraft the
    bill if it is rejected by France's top judicial body.

    Sarkozy, whose right-wing UMP party introduced the bill, is accused
    of using the bill to win the support of France's estimated 500,000
    ethnic Armenians in the French presidential election, which will be
    held in April.

    Armenia claims that up to 1.5 million Armenians were killed in an
    act of genocide carried out by the forces of the Ottoman Empire in
    1915 and 1916.

    Ankara rejects the use of the word "genocide" and instead says that
    only 500,000 Armenians died and they were casualties of World War I.

    Paris formally recognized the killings of Armenians as genocide in
    2001, but had imposed no penalty for anyone denying that genocide
    had occurred.

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