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    SHARMAZANOV: "TURKEY'S REACTION SHOWED REAL IMAGE"

    http://www.a1plus.am/en/politics/2012/01/24/sharmazanov
    06:57 pm | January 24, 2012 | Politics

    The Turkish authorities' reaction to the French Senate's adoption of
    the bill criminalizing Armenian Genocide denial showed once again the
    real image of that country's political elite and that that country
    has nothing in common with European values," NA Vice-Chairman Eduard
    Sharmazanov told "A1+".

    According to him, European values contain within them tolerance,
    peaceful coexistence and require nations to come to grips with the
    dark pages of their history.

    "Even if we compare the example set by Germany 50 years ago and the
    example of modern-day Turkey, we see that there is nothing in common
    at all. The entire region of Europe is first a region of ideology, an
    association of people and states living with democratic values. There
    is no democracy without tolerance and without the will to come to
    grips with history," Sharmazanov mentioned.

    Addressing the arguments of those against the bill, according to whom
    the adoption will further increase the Turkish society's intolerance
    and can give way to extreme measures in the Turkish communities of
    Europe, Sharmazanov mentioned:

    "By adopting this bill, the French government knows very well the
    steps that Turkey can take and what kind of blackmail that that country
    may use. However, the policy of blackmail is doomed since history has
    shown that you can't go against the truth. The truth is that genocide
    did take place, and France, as a country that has humanist values,
    accepts that the denial of genocides is as dangerous as perpetration
    of genocide."

    In his speech at the Mili Mejlis today, Turkish Prime Minister Erdogan
    stressed that the Senate's law "doesn't exist for Turkey". "This
    is discrimination, racism and an attack against freedom of speech,"
    Erdogan said.

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