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FRENCH SENATE TO VOTE ON GENOCIDE BILL
Press TV
http://www.presstv.ir/detail/222610.html
Jan 23 2012
Iran
The French Senate is to vote on a bill that criminalizes the denial
of the 1915 Armenian genocide, a move that Turkey has threatened to
retaliate by imposing permanent sanctions on Paris.
On Monday afternoon, the French Senate will vote on the bill that
was earlier approved by the lower house in December 2011.
Turkish Foreign Minister Ahmet Davutoglu said on Saturday that Ankara
would impose "permanent sanctions" if the bill is passed by the French
Senate and ratified by French President Nicolas Sarkozy.
"There will be more sanctions and this time, the sanctions will be
permanent, until the change in French position," Davutoglu said.
"It is time for French intellectuals, for French senators to defend
our common values, freedom of expression. These are European, French
values. This is against these values," he added.
Before the French lower house approved the bill, Turkish Prime
Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan had also warned that Ankara would
announce sanctions against Paris.
On Friday, the French embassy in Ankara released a "conciliatory
letter" from Sarkozy to Erdogan. Sarkozy wrote in the letter that the
French bill "is in no way aimed at any state or people in particular."
The bill would sentence "anyone in France who publicly denies the 1915
genocide to a year in prison and a fine of 45,000 euros (USD 58,000)."
Ethnic Armenian residents in France allege that up to "1.5 million"
of their ancestors were killed during World War I "by the forces of
Turkey's former Ottoman Empire."
Press TV
http://www.presstv.ir/detail/222610.html
Jan 23 2012
Iran
The French Senate is to vote on a bill that criminalizes the denial
of the 1915 Armenian genocide, a move that Turkey has threatened to
retaliate by imposing permanent sanctions on Paris.
On Monday afternoon, the French Senate will vote on the bill that
was earlier approved by the lower house in December 2011.
Turkish Foreign Minister Ahmet Davutoglu said on Saturday that Ankara
would impose "permanent sanctions" if the bill is passed by the French
Senate and ratified by French President Nicolas Sarkozy.
"There will be more sanctions and this time, the sanctions will be
permanent, until the change in French position," Davutoglu said.
"It is time for French intellectuals, for French senators to defend
our common values, freedom of expression. These are European, French
values. This is against these values," he added.
Before the French lower house approved the bill, Turkish Prime
Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan had also warned that Ankara would
announce sanctions against Paris.
On Friday, the French embassy in Ankara released a "conciliatory
letter" from Sarkozy to Erdogan. Sarkozy wrote in the letter that the
French bill "is in no way aimed at any state or people in particular."
The bill would sentence "anyone in France who publicly denies the 1915
genocide to a year in prison and a fine of 45,000 euros (USD 58,000)."
Ethnic Armenian residents in France allege that up to "1.5 million"
of their ancestors were killed during World War I "by the forces of
Turkey's former Ottoman Empire."