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FRENCH OFFICIAL BANNED FROM EVENT IN ANKARA
PanARMENIAN.Net
February 16, 2012 - 15:40 AMT
PanARMENIAN.Net - Turkey hosts annual meeting of organizers of the
event honoring the memory of those perished in Gallipoli Campaign
during the First World War.
However, this year French military attache was banned from the meeting
due to deterioration of Turkish-French ties in the light of the French
Senate's adoption of the bill criminalizing the Armenian Genocide
denial, according to Turkish media outlets.
"Two Turks in uniforms requested the French representatives to leave
the conference hall," Milliyet reports.
On January 23, the French Senate passed the bill criminalizing the
Armenian Genocide denial with 127 votes for and 86 against. Expected
to be signed into law by President, the bill will 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.
Two separate groups of French politicians who oppose the legislation
- from both the Senate and the lower house - said they had formally
requested the constitutional council examine the law. The groups said
they each had gathered more than the minimum 60 signatures required
to ask the council to test the law's constitutionality. The council
is obliged to deliver its judgment within a month, but this can be
reduced to eight days if the government deems the matter urgent.
From: A. Papazian
PanARMENIAN.Net
February 16, 2012 - 15:40 AMT
PanARMENIAN.Net - Turkey hosts annual meeting of organizers of the
event honoring the memory of those perished in Gallipoli Campaign
during the First World War.
However, this year French military attache was banned from the meeting
due to deterioration of Turkish-French ties in the light of the French
Senate's adoption of the bill criminalizing the Armenian Genocide
denial, according to Turkish media outlets.
"Two Turks in uniforms requested the French representatives to leave
the conference hall," Milliyet reports.
On January 23, the French Senate passed the bill criminalizing the
Armenian Genocide denial with 127 votes for and 86 against. Expected
to be signed into law by President, the bill will 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.
Two separate groups of French politicians who oppose the legislation
- from both the Senate and the lower house - said they had formally
requested the constitutional council examine the law. The groups said
they each had gathered more than the minimum 60 signatures required
to ask the council to test the law's constitutionality. The council
is obliged to deliver its judgment within a month, but this can be
reduced to eight days if the government deems the matter urgent.
From: A. Papazian