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  • ANKARA: 'This Is Going Too Far, Paris'

    'THIS IS GOING TOO FAR, PARIS'

    Hurriyet, Turkey
    Oct 8 2006

    Kenize Mourad, a French writer of Turkish origin who holds dual
    French and Turkish citizenship and is a descendent of Sultan Murat
    V, has written a manifesto calling on the French National Assembly
    to re-address a bill that would make denying the so-called Armenian
    Genocide a crime.

    Mourad's article, in which she says, "This initiative on the part of
    the French Parliament is intellectual terrorism. They are the same
    tactics employed by Stalin and Hitler", continues as follows:

    "It really is too much this time! Europe's insolence and maliciousness
    have reached their outer-most limits.

    "But Turkey cannot buckle under European imposition any longer, even
    if possible (although not certain) membership would be likely to be
    beneficial to Turkey.

    "An EU representative declared yesterday that Turkey was obliged to
    acknowledge the Armenian Genocide as a precondition for membership
    of the EU, and while they were at it, to acknowledge Greek Pontus
    and Syrian genocides too.

    "What many historians (not militant historians of course) tell us is
    that, rather than simply acknowledging or not acknowledging Armenian
    genocide, what we should do is read a lot, research, gather information
    and discuss issues, showing tolerance towards others' views."
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