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    FRANCE MAKING IT A CRIME TO DENY ARMENIAN GENOCIDE

    Newser
    http://www.newser.com/story/138129/france-making-it-a-crime-to-deny-armenian-genocide.html
    Jan 24 2012

    Turkey expected to withdraw ambassador

    (Newser) - If you are in France and deny that Turkey committed
    "genocide" against 1.5 million Armenians in 1915-1916, be prepared
    to be fined $57,000 and spend a year in jail. Actually, the new
    legislation applies to genocide denial in general, but it is the
    law's application to the mass killings of Armenians in Ottoman Turkey
    nearly 100 years ago that has Turkey furious-and Armenia elated,
    of course-reports the BBC.

    "This day will be written in gold not only in the history of friendship
    between the Armenian and French peoples, but also in the annals of the
    history of the protection of human rights," says the Armenian foreign
    affairs minister. Turkey is expected to withdraw its ambassador to
    France in protest. (Sound familiar?) "France opened a black page
    in its history," tweeted the head of Turkey's foreign relations
    committee. Nicolas Sarkozy is expected to sign it into law next month.

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