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POLITICIAN CONFIDENT OF FRENCH BILL'S APPROVAL
Vercihan Ziflioglu
Hurriyet Daily News
Feb 1 2012
Turkey
Yalick expresses confidence the bill would be approved.
Amid a growing rift between France and Turkey over a recently passed
bill to criminalize the denial of Armenian genocide claims, French
deputy Valeri Boyer's advisor Garo Yalick expressed his full confidence
the draft law would be approved.
"I have full confidence that this law is going to be approved under
any circumstances," Yalick, a Turkish-born advisor of Armenian origin
to Marseilles deputy Boyer, told the Hurriyet Daily News.
Sixty-five deputies and 60 senators in France have appealed to the
country's Constitutional Council to overturn the bill that was drafted
and presented to the French Parliament by Boyer of the ruling Union
for a Popular Movement (UMP) party.
"They are exercising their democratic rights in relation to the [draft]
law, but let there be no misunderstandings in Turkey. The deputies and
the senators who oppose the law are also in agreement that genocide
was committed against Armenians in 1915. It ought to be remembered
that France officially recognized the genocide in 2001," Yalick said.
They are trying to blow this law out of all proportion in some quarters
in Turkey, he said, adding that President Nicolas Sarkozy's leading
rival Francois Hollande had also lent his support to the bill.
"President Sarkozy was accused of political maneuvering prior to
the elections. It ought not be forgotten that one of Sarkozy's most
potent rivals Hollande also backed the bill. There was no distinction
between the left and the right, as everyone in France is in agreement
over the definition of the events of 1915," he said.
Galick further claimed the annulment of the bill by the Constitutional
Council would also amount to the rejection of four other laws.
"In case this law is annulled [by the court] the Jewish Holocaust
Law is also going to turn null and void. This is a law construed upon
the norms of the European Union [EU]," Yalick said.
It was a futile effort to discuss whether the bill would be annulled
as it was not a new law but rather filled a legal gap, he said.
Vercihan Ziflioglu
Hurriyet Daily News
Feb 1 2012
Turkey
Yalick expresses confidence the bill would be approved.
Amid a growing rift between France and Turkey over a recently passed
bill to criminalize the denial of Armenian genocide claims, French
deputy Valeri Boyer's advisor Garo Yalick expressed his full confidence
the draft law would be approved.
"I have full confidence that this law is going to be approved under
any circumstances," Yalick, a Turkish-born advisor of Armenian origin
to Marseilles deputy Boyer, told the Hurriyet Daily News.
Sixty-five deputies and 60 senators in France have appealed to the
country's Constitutional Council to overturn the bill that was drafted
and presented to the French Parliament by Boyer of the ruling Union
for a Popular Movement (UMP) party.
"They are exercising their democratic rights in relation to the [draft]
law, but let there be no misunderstandings in Turkey. The deputies and
the senators who oppose the law are also in agreement that genocide
was committed against Armenians in 1915. It ought to be remembered
that France officially recognized the genocide in 2001," Yalick said.
They are trying to blow this law out of all proportion in some quarters
in Turkey, he said, adding that President Nicolas Sarkozy's leading
rival Francois Hollande had also lent his support to the bill.
"President Sarkozy was accused of political maneuvering prior to
the elections. It ought not be forgotten that one of Sarkozy's most
potent rivals Hollande also backed the bill. There was no distinction
between the left and the right, as everyone in France is in agreement
over the definition of the events of 1915," he said.
Galick further claimed the annulment of the bill by the Constitutional
Council would also amount to the rejection of four other laws.
"In case this law is annulled [by the court] the Jewish Holocaust
Law is also going to turn null and void. This is a law construed upon
the norms of the European Union [EU]," Yalick said.
It was a futile effort to discuss whether the bill would be annulled
as it was not a new law but rather filled a legal gap, he said.