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  • VoA: Turkey Warns France Not To Make Denial Of Armenian Genocide ACr

    TURKEY WARNS FRANCE NOT TO MAKE DENIAL OF ARMENIAN GENOCIDE A CRIMINAL ACT

    Voice of America
    May 3 2006

    Turkey has warned France that ties between the two countries will
    suffer what it called "irreparable damage" if French lawmakers
    approve a measure making denial of the Armenian genocide 90 years
    ago a criminal offense.

    A Turkish Foreign Ministry spokesman, Namik Tan, told reporters in
    Ankara his country's views on the issue are being conveyed to French
    officials. The proposed bill would provide fines and imprisonment for
    denying that Armenians in the Ottoman Empire were victims of genocide
    during World War One

    If adopted, the bill would follow a 2001 French parliament decision
    that the deaths of one and a half million Armenians amounted to
    genocide.

    That vote infuriated Turkey, which acknowledges the deaths of hundreds
    of thousands of Armenians but insists that as many Turks also died
    in civil strife and a Russian-backed Armenian uprising against
    Ottoman rule.

    From: Emil Lazarian | Ararat NewsPress
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