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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.

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