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PM TELLS SARKOZY NOT TO INCITE TO ISLAMOPHOBIA
Today's Zaman
March 13 2012
Turkey
PM Recep Tayyip Erdošan claimed on Tuesday that French President
Nicolas Sarkozy is inciting racism and Islamophobia in France in order
to get re-elected in the upcoming presidential elections. Erdošan said
resorting to xenophobia, particularly Islamophobia, to win elections
is very irresponsible.
Depicting a recent bill Sarkozy's center-right UMP initiated seeking to
penalize the denial of Armenian claims of genocide at the hands of the
Ottoman Empire in 1915 as an act inciting the French to xenophobia,
Erdošan said the current president adopted a more aggressive stance
after the bill was passed into law but then overruled by the French
Constitutional Council, which deemed it unconstitutional. Erdošan said
the council had corrected a historic mistake by cancelling the law.
Valerie Boyer, a deputy from the UMP, initiated the genocide bill
criminalizing the denial of the so-called Armenian genocide in
December 2011. The bill was approved in the lower house of the
French Parliament and in the French Senate in January. However, the
constitutional council deemed it unconstitutional, stating that it
violated the freedom of expression.
"Sarkozy is making xenophobia a matter of domestic politics, and
issuing threatening remarks against foreigners in his country. This is
in violation of the EU's universal values and fundamental principles,"
Erdošan said. The French presidential elections will take place
between April and May.
Today's Zaman
March 13 2012
Turkey
PM Recep Tayyip Erdošan claimed on Tuesday that French President
Nicolas Sarkozy is inciting racism and Islamophobia in France in order
to get re-elected in the upcoming presidential elections. Erdošan said
resorting to xenophobia, particularly Islamophobia, to win elections
is very irresponsible.
Depicting a recent bill Sarkozy's center-right UMP initiated seeking to
penalize the denial of Armenian claims of genocide at the hands of the
Ottoman Empire in 1915 as an act inciting the French to xenophobia,
Erdošan said the current president adopted a more aggressive stance
after the bill was passed into law but then overruled by the French
Constitutional Council, which deemed it unconstitutional. Erdošan said
the council had corrected a historic mistake by cancelling the law.
Valerie Boyer, a deputy from the UMP, initiated the genocide bill
criminalizing the denial of the so-called Armenian genocide in
December 2011. The bill was approved in the lower house of the
French Parliament and in the French Senate in January. However, the
constitutional council deemed it unconstitutional, stating that it
violated the freedom of expression.
"Sarkozy is making xenophobia a matter of domestic politics, and
issuing threatening remarks against foreigners in his country. This is
in violation of the EU's universal values and fundamental principles,"
Erdošan said. The French presidential elections will take place
between April and May.