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OPPOSITION PARTY CONDEMNS FRENCH SENATE'S DECISION
Anadolu Agency
Jan 24 2012
Turkey
Turkey's opposition Nationalist Movement Party (MHP) condemned French
Senate's adopting a bill which criminalizes the denial of Armenian
allegations about 1915 incidents during Ottoman period.
MHP Chairman Devlet Bahceli said during his party's group meeting in
Ankara on Tuesday that Turkish nation would never forget this ugliness
of France which blocked freedom of thought.
Bahceli said that Turkey did not have any genocide in its history.
He added that MHP cursed and condemned the decision of French Senate.
French Senate on Monday adopted a bill that criminalizes the denial
of Armenian allegations pertaining to the incidents of 1915.
The bill was adopted by a vote of 127 against 86.
With the adoption of the Armenian bill at the French Senate, the
denial of Armenian allegations regarding the incidents of 1915 would
be penalized with a prison term of one year and a monetary fine of
45,000 euros in France.
From: Baghdasarian
Anadolu Agency
Jan 24 2012
Turkey
Turkey's opposition Nationalist Movement Party (MHP) condemned French
Senate's adopting a bill which criminalizes the denial of Armenian
allegations about 1915 incidents during Ottoman period.
MHP Chairman Devlet Bahceli said during his party's group meeting in
Ankara on Tuesday that Turkish nation would never forget this ugliness
of France which blocked freedom of thought.
Bahceli said that Turkey did not have any genocide in its history.
He added that MHP cursed and condemned the decision of French Senate.
French Senate on Monday adopted a bill that criminalizes the denial
of Armenian allegations pertaining to the incidents of 1915.
The bill was adopted by a vote of 127 against 86.
With the adoption of the Armenian bill at the French Senate, the
denial of Armenian allegations regarding the incidents of 1915 would
be penalized with a prison term of one year and a monetary fine of
45,000 euros in France.
From: Baghdasarian