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FRENCH BILL ON ARMENIAN GENOCIDE ANGERS TURKEY
Macleans.ca
http://www2.macleans.ca/2012/01/24/french-bill-on-armenian-genocide-angers-turkey/
Jan 24 2012
Canada
Ankara threatens diplomatic rupture with Paris
by macleans.ca on Tuesday, January 24, 2012 12:58pm
The French parliament approved a bill on Monday making it illegal to
deny that mass killings of Armenians by Ottoman Turks in the early
twentieth century were genocide. In response, Turkey threatened a
total rupture of diplomatic ties with France-a NATO ally. Reuters
reports lawmakers passed the bill in France's upper house by a 127
to 86 margin. While the bill speaks in general to the denial of any
genocide, it is seen in Turkey as a direct insult, and a bid by French
president Nicolas Sarkozy to win the votes of 500,000 ethnic Armenians
in France. Armenia says 1.5 million Armenians were killed in the first
World War under genocidal policies of the Ottoman Empire in what is
now eastern Turkey; many historians agree, but most Turks strongly
object to the use of the term "genocide" to describe the killings.
President Sarkozy is expected to ratify the bill before the end
of February.
From: A. Papazian
Macleans.ca
http://www2.macleans.ca/2012/01/24/french-bill-on-armenian-genocide-angers-turkey/
Jan 24 2012
Canada
Ankara threatens diplomatic rupture with Paris
by macleans.ca on Tuesday, January 24, 2012 12:58pm
The French parliament approved a bill on Monday making it illegal to
deny that mass killings of Armenians by Ottoman Turks in the early
twentieth century were genocide. In response, Turkey threatened a
total rupture of diplomatic ties with France-a NATO ally. Reuters
reports lawmakers passed the bill in France's upper house by a 127
to 86 margin. While the bill speaks in general to the denial of any
genocide, it is seen in Turkey as a direct insult, and a bid by French
president Nicolas Sarkozy to win the votes of 500,000 ethnic Armenians
in France. Armenia says 1.5 million Armenians were killed in the first
World War under genocidal policies of the Ottoman Empire in what is
now eastern Turkey; many historians agree, but most Turks strongly
object to the use of the term "genocide" to describe the killings.
President Sarkozy is expected to ratify the bill before the end
of February.
From: A. Papazian