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    TURKISH BOY EXPELLED FROM SCHOOL IN FRANCE FOR DENYING FACT OF ARMENIAN GENOCIDE

    NOYAN TAPAN
    NOVEMBER 17, 2009
    NANCE

    NANCE, NOVEMBER 17, NOYAN TAPAN - ARMENIANS TODAY. 13-year-old Mustafa
    Dogan, a student of the French college in the city of Nance, France,
    was expelled from school for denying the fact of Armenian Genocide
    in his composition. The school gave two days to Mustafa to collect
    information about the Armenian Genocide, to speak with people having
    experienced the Genocide, to apply to sources being alternative to
    the Turkish ones in Internet and to correct his views.

    According to Marmara, the History teacher of the French college had
    assigned the students to write a composition about the Armenian
    Genocide and the events of 1915. The Turkish student, who had
    debated with his teacher before, this time got angry and wrote in
    his composition: "Even if a genocide was committed, the Armenians
    deserved it."

    Zaman newspaper's Paris correspondent wrote that the law envisaging a
    criminal punishment for denial of the Armenian Genocide has not been
    yet ratified in France but it is already being used now.

    This incident is rather typical. The school teacher earlier being
    concerned with Mustafa's assertions invited his father to school and
    explained to him that according to the French laws, the boy commits
    a crime by denying the Armenian Genocide. Boy's father, Mehmed Dogan
    answered that he is not aware of such a law's existence. The teacher
    said that it is clear who encourages the boy.

    Later Mehmed Dogan said that the teacher showed a racial approach and
    made the 13-year-old boy angry. He added that he does not believe,
    either that a genocide had been committed but he is sorry that his
    son wrote that the Armenians deserved the Genocide.

    A Turkish organization functioning in France is going to send its
    representative for a meeting with the school's headmaster this Friday.

    It was mentioned that in his talk to Zaman's correspondent the
    headmaster supported the History teacher and considered the punishment
    fair.

    From: Emil Lazarian | Ararat NewsPress
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