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Turks protest outside French Embassy in Bucharest:
Turkish Daily News
Oct 20 2006
Diplomacy Newsline
Friday, October 20, 2006
ANK - TDN with AFP
Some 30 Turkish residents of Romania demonstrated on Wednesday outside
France's embassy in Bucharest against a French bill making it a crime
to deny that Armenians were victims of genocide at the hands of the
Ottoman Empire.
They held up banners in French saying that politicians should not
legislate on historical matters.
Some of the demonstrators left a letter of protest at the embassy,
reported the Mediafax news agency.
The bill, which needs to be approved by the French Senate and president
to become law, provides for a year in jail for anyone denying the
alleged genocide. It was approved by a vote in the lower house of
the French Parliament last Thursday.
Turkish Daily News
Oct 20 2006
Diplomacy Newsline
Friday, October 20, 2006
ANK - TDN with AFP
Some 30 Turkish residents of Romania demonstrated on Wednesday outside
France's embassy in Bucharest against a French bill making it a crime
to deny that Armenians were victims of genocide at the hands of the
Ottoman Empire.
They held up banners in French saying that politicians should not
legislate on historical matters.
Some of the demonstrators left a letter of protest at the embassy,
reported the Mediafax news agency.
The bill, which needs to be approved by the French Senate and president
to become law, provides for a year in jail for anyone denying the
alleged genocide. It was approved by a vote in the lower house of
the French Parliament last Thursday.