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    ARMINFO News Agency
    September 29, 2006 Friday


    THEY IN TURKEY CONCERNED FOR FRENCH PRESIDENT'S VISIT TO ARMENIA

    Some Turkish mass media express concern for the visit of French
    President Jacques Chirac to Armenia mostly because he is going to
    visit the Armenian Genocide Memorial Complex and the Armenian
    Genocide Museum in Yerevan.

    However, the key reason for their concern is that the French
    Parliament is again going to consider the bill imprisoning people for
    denying the fact of the Armenian Genocide.

    Milliyet daily says that in May the bill was submitted by the
    Socialist Party of France and will be discussed Oct 12.

    The daily says: France is pressuring Turkey into revising Article 301
    of its Criminal Code. It says that the article restricts the freedom
    of speech but at the same time it is going to punish those denying
    the Genocide.
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