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  • ANKARA: France Finds The Quid Guilty of Turkish Propaganda

    Zaman, Turkey
    July 7 2005

    France Finds The Quid Guilty of Turkish Propaganda
    By Ali Ihsan Aydin
    Published: Thursday July 07, 2005
    zaman.com


    A Paris court found the famous French encyclopedia The Quid guilty
    of printing the Turkish view on the so-called "Armenian genocide".

    The court fined The Quid encyclopedias a symbolic indemnity payment
    of one euro. According to the court decision the 2003 and 2004
    editions of the encyclopedia, the Turkish version of events were
    presented on the Armenian claim and the opinions mentioned by the
    'denying historians' were given as if they were definite information.
    The court concluded that the Turkish opinion was handled more
    extensively in the encyclopedia.

    The Quid was also found guilty of supporting the thesis claiming that
    Armenians were deported since they cooperated with Russians against
    Turks. The Robert Laffont Publishing, which published the
    encyclopedia, will announce the court decision in three newspapers
    and three magazines. The publishing company had made a change in its
    2005 edition upon Armenian pressure. The French Armenian Case Defense
    Committee (CDCA) appealed to a Paris court in 2003 to launch an
    investigation against The Quid on the grounds of publishing the
    Turkish version of the 1915 incidents. Commenting on the court
    decision, CDCA President Harout Mardirossian said, "it is a great
    victory for the memory of our grandmothers and grandfathers"' adding
    that with this decision France sent a significant messeage to Turkey
    to end its 'denial propoganda'. Stressing that the fight against
    denial would continue, Mardirossian said they would try for France's
    enacting a law to punish those denying the Armenian genocide. Four
    law drafts about this issue are waiting to come to the agenda in the
    French Parliament.

    A Paris court heard the case in May. Armenian organizations had
    claimed that the genocide is a reality accepted by everyone and there
    cannot be a "Turkish opinion" and "Armenian opinion". Accusing The
    Quid of propaganda in favor of Turkey, CDCA claimed that the
    viewpoint shown as scientific was in fact Turkey's official stance
    and to question the "Armenian genocide". Refuting the accusations,
    Robert Laffront Publishing said they had handled the genocide issue
    taking all its aspects into consideration and that they mentioned
    Armenian opinions in the section about Armenia. Formerly, the court
    had convicted famous historian Bernard Lewis to a symbolic payment of
    one euro for indemnity in 1995 after he spoke to French newspaper Le
    Monde against the so-called "Armenian genocide".
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