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ICELAND MPS SUBMIT PROPOSAL FOR RECOGNITION OF ARMENIAN GENOCIDE CLAIMS
Today's Zaman
April 18 2012
Turkey
Icelandic parliamentarians have submitted a proposal urging the
country's government to officially recognize Armenian claims of
genocide at the hands of the Ottoman Empire, an Armenian news report
has said.
The initiative was proposed by parliamentarian Margrйt
TryggvadÑ~Cttir, a member of The Movement party, earlier this week,
according to the report by panarmenian.net.
The initiative was also supported by two other members of The
Movement, ЮÑ~Cr Saari and Birgitta JÑ~CnsdÑ~Cttir, as well as
Lilja MÑ~CsesdÑ~Cttir and GuÑ~@mundur Steingrнmsson, chairs of the
Solidarity and Bright Future parties.
Turkey rejects the genocide claims, saying there were killings on both
sides as the Ottoman Empire was trying to quell an uprising by Armenian
groups in collaboration with the Russian army, which was then invading
eastern Anatolia. The proposal in Iceland comes after Turkish-French
relations were strained over a French attempt to criminalize denial
of the alleged genocide. On Jan. 23, the French Senate passed a bill
making the denial of genocide claims a crime after it passed the lower
house of the French Parliament on Dec. 22 of last year. Turkey said
the bill violated the principle of freedom of expression.
The French Constitutional Council later annulled the bill, saying it
was against the constitutional principle of freedom of expression.
Today's Zaman
April 18 2012
Turkey
Icelandic parliamentarians have submitted a proposal urging the
country's government to officially recognize Armenian claims of
genocide at the hands of the Ottoman Empire, an Armenian news report
has said.
The initiative was proposed by parliamentarian Margrйt
TryggvadÑ~Cttir, a member of The Movement party, earlier this week,
according to the report by panarmenian.net.
The initiative was also supported by two other members of The
Movement, ЮÑ~Cr Saari and Birgitta JÑ~CnsdÑ~Cttir, as well as
Lilja MÑ~CsesdÑ~Cttir and GuÑ~@mundur Steingrнmsson, chairs of the
Solidarity and Bright Future parties.
Turkey rejects the genocide claims, saying there were killings on both
sides as the Ottoman Empire was trying to quell an uprising by Armenian
groups in collaboration with the Russian army, which was then invading
eastern Anatolia. The proposal in Iceland comes after Turkish-French
relations were strained over a French attempt to criminalize denial
of the alleged genocide. On Jan. 23, the French Senate passed a bill
making the denial of genocide claims a crime after it passed the lower
house of the French Parliament on Dec. 22 of last year. Turkey said
the bill violated the principle of freedom of expression.
The French Constitutional Council later annulled the bill, saying it
was against the constitutional principle of freedom of expression.