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Jan 2 2012
TURKEY RECALLS FRANCE ENVOY AFTER GENOCIDE BILL
Muslim World
Despite strong protests by regional powerhouse Turkey, French
lawmakers on Dec. 22 passed the measure to make it a crime in France
to deny that the mass killings of Armenians in 1915 amounted to a
genocide. The bill has triggered outrage in Turkey as it would include
the 1915 mass killing of Armenians in Ottoman Turkey. There was no
official vote count in the ballot in France's lower house of
parliament since lawmakers simply voted by raising their hands. The
bill will next be put to the Senate, or upper house, for debate in
2012. The measure could put France on a collision course with Turkey,
a strategic ally and trading partner that says the conflict nearly 100
years ago should be left to historians.
Turkey says with the measure France will be tampering with freedom of
expression by denying people the right to say what they think. Turkish
authorities attribute the action to a bid by Sarkozy's party for
short-term political gains ahead of spring presidential and
legislative elections. Turkish Prime Minister Tayyip Erdogan has
recalled France's colonial history in Algeria and a 1945 massacre
there, as well as its role in Rwanda, where some have claimed a French
role in the 1994 genocide there. `Those who do want to see genocide
should turn around and look at their own dirty and bloody history,'
Erdogan said last weekend. `Turkey will stand against this
intentional, malicious, unjust and illegal attempt through all kinds
of diplomatic means.'
http://www.radianceweekly.com/287/8074/embellishing-the-iraq-warmoral-victory-and-selective-body-counts/2012-01-01/muslim-world/story-detail/turkey-recalls-france-envoy-after-genocide-bill.html
Jan 2 2012
TURKEY RECALLS FRANCE ENVOY AFTER GENOCIDE BILL
Muslim World
Despite strong protests by regional powerhouse Turkey, French
lawmakers on Dec. 22 passed the measure to make it a crime in France
to deny that the mass killings of Armenians in 1915 amounted to a
genocide. The bill has triggered outrage in Turkey as it would include
the 1915 mass killing of Armenians in Ottoman Turkey. There was no
official vote count in the ballot in France's lower house of
parliament since lawmakers simply voted by raising their hands. The
bill will next be put to the Senate, or upper house, for debate in
2012. The measure could put France on a collision course with Turkey,
a strategic ally and trading partner that says the conflict nearly 100
years ago should be left to historians.
Turkey says with the measure France will be tampering with freedom of
expression by denying people the right to say what they think. Turkish
authorities attribute the action to a bid by Sarkozy's party for
short-term political gains ahead of spring presidential and
legislative elections. Turkish Prime Minister Tayyip Erdogan has
recalled France's colonial history in Algeria and a 1945 massacre
there, as well as its role in Rwanda, where some have claimed a French
role in the 1994 genocide there. `Those who do want to see genocide
should turn around and look at their own dirty and bloody history,'
Erdogan said last weekend. `Turkey will stand against this
intentional, malicious, unjust and illegal attempt through all kinds
of diplomatic means.'
http://www.radianceweekly.com/287/8074/embellishing-the-iraq-warmoral-victory-and-selective-body-counts/2012-01-01/muslim-world/story-detail/turkey-recalls-france-envoy-after-genocide-bill.html