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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
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