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    TURKEY HELD A PROTEST AGAINST FRANCE'S PARLIAMENT'S PASSING A BILL CONCERNING SO-CALLED ARMENIAN "GENOCIDE"
    Author: E. Husseynov

    TREND Information, Azerbaijan
    Nov 4 2006

    Today, on November 4, an action of protest against the French
    Paliament's passing a bill concerning the so-called Armenian
    "genocide", that envisages a criminal responsibility for a denial of
    the so-called "genocide", Trend Special Correspondent to Igdir reports.

    The action was organized by the Municipality of the Turkish Village
    of Igdir on the Turkish border with Armenia. Nurettin Araz, Head
    of the Municipality, addressing the arrangement, stated that such
    decisions as the one made by the French Parliament is aimed "to drive
    Turkey into the corner" by means of the Armenian issue. Mr. Aras said
    that in the issue of Turkish membership in EU, "there are people who
    sincerely wants Turkey's joining EU, who realizes its importance to
    Europe, and on the contrary, there are those who are scared from
    Muslim Turkey, who say "we are the Christian club, and there are
    no place for Turkey in it". Mr. Aras asked a question, what France,
    which is considered to be the address of independence, which itself
    have committed massive massacres for centuries, will gain from it?

    He also pointed out that according to the research conducted by
    American, English, and Russian experts, Armenians themselves have
    killed over 2.5 mln. Turks for the last century. "They killed hundreds
    of thousands of Azerbaijanis in Azerbaijan. On March 31, 1918, they
    killed more than 10,000 Azerbaijanis just in one day", he stressed. The
    participants of the protest scanned: "Real genocide was in Khojali",
    "Why France does not acknowledge Khojali Massacre?!", etc.

    Notably, the arrangement was held in village Khakhmed, where in 1919,
    Armenian forces buried dozens of Turks alive. As a result 51 bodies
    were found. In this location a memorial was raised in 1995.
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