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FRANCE TO ENACT ARMENIA GENOCIDE LAW IN TWO WEEKS
http://www.expatica.com/fr/news/french-news/france-to-enact-armenia-genocide
-law-in-two-weeks_203436.html
24/01/2012
France will within a fortnight enact a new law banning denial of
the Armenian genocide, despite threats by Turkey to impose sanctions
against Paris, President Nicolas Sarkozy's office said Tuesday.
"The president of the republic will promulgate the law punishing denial
of the genocide of the Armenians in 1915 within the normal timeframe,"
which is two weeks, a Sarkozy aide said.
The French Senate on Monday approved the measure which threatens with
jail anyone in France who denies that the massacre of Armenians by
Ottoman Turk forces amounted to genocide.
Turkey on Tuesday slammed the planned law as discriminatory and
racist and vowed to impose unspecified sanctions against Paris on a
"step-by-step" basis.
French Foreign Minister Alain Juppe appealed to France's "Turkish
friends" for calm as Turks reacted furiously to the Senate's approval
of the bill.
But Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan warned that his
Islamist-rooted government would punish Paris with retaliatory
measures if Sarkozy, whose right-wing UMP party initiated the bill,
signed it into law.
Hundreds of people protested outside the French embassy in Ankara
Tuesday and the consulate in Istanbul, chanting slogans such as
"Armenian Genocide Is an Imperialist Lie".
France has already recognised the killings as a genocide, but the
new bill would go further, by punishing anyone who denies this with
a year in jail and a fine of 45,000 euros ($57,000).
Armenians say up to 1.5 million of their forebears were killed in
1915 and 1916 by the forces of Turkey's former Ottoman Empire.
Turkey disputes the figure, arguing that 500,000 died, and denies this
was genocide, ascribing the toll to fighting and starvation during
World War I and accusing the Armenians of siding with Russian invaders.
From: Baghdasarian
http://www.expatica.com/fr/news/french-news/france-to-enact-armenia-genocide
-law-in-two-weeks_203436.html
24/01/2012
France will within a fortnight enact a new law banning denial of
the Armenian genocide, despite threats by Turkey to impose sanctions
against Paris, President Nicolas Sarkozy's office said Tuesday.
"The president of the republic will promulgate the law punishing denial
of the genocide of the Armenians in 1915 within the normal timeframe,"
which is two weeks, a Sarkozy aide said.
The French Senate on Monday approved the measure which threatens with
jail anyone in France who denies that the massacre of Armenians by
Ottoman Turk forces amounted to genocide.
Turkey on Tuesday slammed the planned law as discriminatory and
racist and vowed to impose unspecified sanctions against Paris on a
"step-by-step" basis.
French Foreign Minister Alain Juppe appealed to France's "Turkish
friends" for calm as Turks reacted furiously to the Senate's approval
of the bill.
But Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan warned that his
Islamist-rooted government would punish Paris with retaliatory
measures if Sarkozy, whose right-wing UMP party initiated the bill,
signed it into law.
Hundreds of people protested outside the French embassy in Ankara
Tuesday and the consulate in Istanbul, chanting slogans such as
"Armenian Genocide Is an Imperialist Lie".
France has already recognised the killings as a genocide, but the
new bill would go further, by punishing anyone who denies this with
a year in jail and a fine of 45,000 euros ($57,000).
Armenians say up to 1.5 million of their forebears were killed in
1915 and 1916 by the forces of Turkey's former Ottoman Empire.
Turkey disputes the figure, arguing that 500,000 died, and denies this
was genocide, ascribing the toll to fighting and starvation during
World War I and accusing the Armenians of siding with Russian invaders.
From: Baghdasarian