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ANGER AT FRENCH LAW ON 'GENOCIDE'
http://news.google.com/news/search?pz=1&cf=all&ned=us&hl=en&q=armenia+OR+Armen ian+OR+armenians+OR+karabakh&cf=all&scoring=n
Wednesday 21 December 2011
Turkey has threatened to publicly attack France's colonial past
if Paris makes denying Ottoman Turks' First World War killings of
Armenians a crime.
Historians estimate up to 1.5 million died in deportations in 1915-16.
Turkey puts the number of deaths closer to 300,000 and denies it
was genocide.
France's lower house of parliament will today consider making the
denial of the atrocity a crime carrying a £37,000 fine and one year
in jail.
The issue threatens to further damage relations between the two
countries, which are already tense over French leader Nicolas Sarkozy's
opposition to Turkey's bid to join the EU.
From: A. Papazian
http://news.google.com/news/search?pz=1&cf=all&ned=us&hl=en&q=armenia+OR+Armen ian+OR+armenians+OR+karabakh&cf=all&scoring=n
Wednesday 21 December 2011
Turkey has threatened to publicly attack France's colonial past
if Paris makes denying Ottoman Turks' First World War killings of
Armenians a crime.
Historians estimate up to 1.5 million died in deportations in 1915-16.
Turkey puts the number of deaths closer to 300,000 and denies it
was genocide.
France's lower house of parliament will today consider making the
denial of the atrocity a crime carrying a £37,000 fine and one year
in jail.
The issue threatens to further damage relations between the two
countries, which are already tense over French leader Nicolas Sarkozy's
opposition to Turkey's bid to join the EU.
From: A. Papazian