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    Radiance Viewsweekly
    Jan 2 2012


    TURKEY RECALLS FRANCE ENVOY AFTER GENOCIDE BILL

    Muslim World

    Despite strong protests by regional powerhouse Turkey, French
    lawmakers on Dec. 22 passed the measure to make it a crime in France
    to deny that the mass killings of Armenians in 1915 amounted to a
    genocide. The bill has triggered outrage in Turkey as it would include
    the 1915 mass killing of Armenians in Ottoman Turkey. There was no
    official vote count in the ballot in France's lower house of
    parliament since lawmakers simply voted by raising their hands. The
    bill will next be put to the Senate, or upper house, for debate in
    2012. The measure could put France on a collision course with Turkey,
    a strategic ally and trading partner that says the conflict nearly 100
    years ago should be left to historians.

    Turkey says with the measure France will be tampering with freedom of
    expression by denying people the right to say what they think. Turkish
    authorities attribute the action to a bid by Sarkozy's party for
    short-term political gains ahead of spring presidential and
    legislative elections. Turkish Prime Minister Tayyip Erdogan has
    recalled France's colonial history in Algeria and a 1945 massacre
    there, as well as its role in Rwanda, where some have claimed a French
    role in the 1994 genocide there. `Those who do want to see genocide
    should turn around and look at their own dirty and bloody history,'
    Erdogan said last weekend. `Turkey will stand against this
    intentional, malicious, unjust and illegal attempt through all kinds
    of diplomatic means.'

    http://www.radianceweekly.com/287/8074/embellishing-the-iraq-warmoral-victory-and-selective-body-counts/2012-01-01/muslim-world/story-detail/turkey-recalls-france-envoy-after-genocide-bill.html

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