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  • ANKARA: Paris To Resubmit Bill On Armenian Genocide Denial

    PARIS TO RESUBMIT BILL ON ARMENIAN GENOCIDE DENIAL

    Journal of Turkish Weekly
    July 10 2012

    France plans to vote on a new bill that would criminalize denying that
    the 1915-16 mass killings of Armenians by Ottoman Turks was genocide,
    a local Armenian-lobbying group has said.

    French President Francois Hollande said on July 7 that he would
    support another attempt to pass such a law.

    A similar bill passed the National Assembly in December 2011, under
    Hollande's presidential predecessor Nicolas Sarkozy, but the country's
    constitutional court struck down the measure as a violation of freedom
    of speech.

    The debate in France has angered Ankara, which suspended political and
    military cooperation in retaliation for the original bill's passage.

    Based on reporting by AFP and Reuters

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