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TURKS PROTEST AT FRENCH GENOCIDE BILL
NowLebanon.com
Dec 23 2011
Around 100 people gathered in front of the French consulate in
Istanbul on Friday, protesting at a bill criminalizing the denial of
the Armenian genocide in 1915 in Ottoman Turkey.
"Down with France" and "Allahu Akbar" chanted the group, comprising
supporters of the small, Islamist, Felicity Party (SP). The protestors
carried banners reading "genocide is a lie," and "France, drop
defamation and face your own history."
The group also left red carnations on the stairs of the consulate
building. "Do not sleep Sarkozy, the Ottomans are here," they chanted
in a message to French President Nicolas Sarkozy.
The demonstrators were protesting at Thursday's vote in the French
lower house approving a bill imposing a jail term and a 45,000 euro
fine on anyone in France who denies that mass killings of Armenians
during World War I at the hands of Ottoman forces were genocide.
NowLebanon.com
Dec 23 2011
Around 100 people gathered in front of the French consulate in
Istanbul on Friday, protesting at a bill criminalizing the denial of
the Armenian genocide in 1915 in Ottoman Turkey.
"Down with France" and "Allahu Akbar" chanted the group, comprising
supporters of the small, Islamist, Felicity Party (SP). The protestors
carried banners reading "genocide is a lie," and "France, drop
defamation and face your own history."
The group also left red carnations on the stairs of the consulate
building. "Do not sleep Sarkozy, the Ottomans are here," they chanted
in a message to French President Nicolas Sarkozy.
The demonstrators were protesting at Thursday's vote in the French
lower house approving a bill imposing a jail term and a 45,000 euro
fine on anyone in France who denies that mass killings of Armenians
during World War I at the hands of Ottoman forces were genocide.