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    THE ECONOMIST: TURKEY IS HARDLY IN POSITION TO PREACH ABOUT FREE SPEECH

    PanARMENIAN.Net
    December 29, 2011 - 11:33 AMT

    PanARMENIAN.Net - Turkey is hardly in a position to preach about free
    speech, says a report in The Economist.

    Its own laws, in a mirror image of the French proposal, prohibit
    descriptions of the 1915 killings as genocide. More than 100
    journalists are in jail, many of them on flimsy charges of backing
    terrorism, it says.

    As for Mr Sarkozy's manoeuvres, many Armenians would say they are no
    more cynical than Turkey's decision in 2009 to sign a set of protocols
    establishing formal ties and reopening borders with Armenia just as the
    United States Congress was gearing up to pass a genocide-recognition
    bill. In the event Barack Obama convinced American lawmakers to desist,
    the report says.

    It also says that Turkey promptly shelved the protocols, reverting
    to its old line linking reconciliation to resolution of the Nagorno
    Karabakh conflict.

    On December 22, 2011, French National Assembly passed a bill
    criminalizing public denial of the Armenian Genocide. If passed and
    signed into law by the Senate, the bill would impose a 45,000 euro
    fine and a year in prison for anyone in France who denies this crime
    against humanity committed by the Ottoman Empire. Following the vote,
    Ankara recalled its ambassador from France.

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