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NEKKAZ URGES TURKEY TO PASS 'ALGERIAN BILL'
Hurriyet Daily News
Jan 13 2012
Turkey
The Turkish government should make a law to punish those denying
Algerian genocide, similar to France's bill concerning Armenian
claims of genocide, according to Rachid Nekkaz, a French businessman
of Algerian descent.
"Sarkozy's stance for Turkey is parallel to the Western countries'
stance during Ottoman time when they called Ottoman [Empire] the
'sick man' of Europe. However, Turkey is not the sick man anymore,
and you have to transform your economic power to diplomatic power now,"
Nekkaz told journalists in a press conference held at the Association
for Human Rights and Solidarity for Oppressed Peoples (Mazlum-Der)
in Istanbul. Nekkaz called on Turkey to legislate Algerian genocide
on March 19, when the Evian Agreement was signed between France and
Algeria. Nekkaz also started a fund for 1 million euros to pay for
future fines of people denying Armenian claims of genocide in France
should the controversial law be passed.
If the bill is accepted in the French Senate on Jan. 23, Nekkaz said
he will be the first person to commit the crime of denying Armenian
genocide in front of the French Senate. "The only aim of Sarkozy is
to capture the votes of the 500,000 Armenians in France. This is not
acceptable for a state policy. It is very normal that Turkish Prime
Minister [Recep Tayyip] Erdošan is now talking about France's genocide
in Algeria," Nekkaz said.
Nekkaz also said Algerian Prime Minister Ahmed Ouyahia's warning
to Turkey "to stop trying to make political capital out of France's
killing of thousands of Algerians during the colonial period" does
not reflect the views of the Algerian people.
Hurriyet Daily News
Jan 13 2012
Turkey
The Turkish government should make a law to punish those denying
Algerian genocide, similar to France's bill concerning Armenian
claims of genocide, according to Rachid Nekkaz, a French businessman
of Algerian descent.
"Sarkozy's stance for Turkey is parallel to the Western countries'
stance during Ottoman time when they called Ottoman [Empire] the
'sick man' of Europe. However, Turkey is not the sick man anymore,
and you have to transform your economic power to diplomatic power now,"
Nekkaz told journalists in a press conference held at the Association
for Human Rights and Solidarity for Oppressed Peoples (Mazlum-Der)
in Istanbul. Nekkaz called on Turkey to legislate Algerian genocide
on March 19, when the Evian Agreement was signed between France and
Algeria. Nekkaz also started a fund for 1 million euros to pay for
future fines of people denying Armenian claims of genocide in France
should the controversial law be passed.
If the bill is accepted in the French Senate on Jan. 23, Nekkaz said
he will be the first person to commit the crime of denying Armenian
genocide in front of the French Senate. "The only aim of Sarkozy is
to capture the votes of the 500,000 Armenians in France. This is not
acceptable for a state policy. It is very normal that Turkish Prime
Minister [Recep Tayyip] Erdošan is now talking about France's genocide
in Algeria," Nekkaz said.
Nekkaz also said Algerian Prime Minister Ahmed Ouyahia's warning
to Turkey "to stop trying to make political capital out of France's
killing of thousands of Algerians during the colonial period" does
not reflect the views of the Algerian people.