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TURKEY 'HYPOCRITICAL' REGARDING FRENCH BILL, SAYS HARVARD POLITICAL REVIEW
ASBAREZ
Tuesday, March 27th, 2012
The French Senate
In an article in the Harvard Political Review, "France, Turkey, and
the Politics of Genocide," author Joe Mazur calls Turkey's response
to the passage of a set of bills that opted to criminalize the denial
of the Armenian Genocide in France as "hypocritical."
"Turkey's righteous indignation might be more convincing if it was not
also glaringly hypocritical. When Erdogan, in a speech to parliament,
insisted that the French bill "murdered freedom of thought", he seemed
to have forgotten that Article 301 of the Turkish penal code makes
it illegal to insult the Turkish nation, ethnicity, or government,"
writes Mazur in the HPR.
"Moreover, Turkey's hysterical reaction to the bill has made it
abundantly clear that the country is being forced to confront its
own checkered history," adds Mazur, who also interviewed Harvard
Professor of Armenian Studies James Russell about the matter.
Read the entire Harvard Political Review article.
http://hpronline.org/world/france-turkey-and-the-politics-of-genocide/
ASBAREZ
Tuesday, March 27th, 2012
The French Senate
In an article in the Harvard Political Review, "France, Turkey, and
the Politics of Genocide," author Joe Mazur calls Turkey's response
to the passage of a set of bills that opted to criminalize the denial
of the Armenian Genocide in France as "hypocritical."
"Turkey's righteous indignation might be more convincing if it was not
also glaringly hypocritical. When Erdogan, in a speech to parliament,
insisted that the French bill "murdered freedom of thought", he seemed
to have forgotten that Article 301 of the Turkish penal code makes
it illegal to insult the Turkish nation, ethnicity, or government,"
writes Mazur in the HPR.
"Moreover, Turkey's hysterical reaction to the bill has made it
abundantly clear that the country is being forced to confront its
own checkered history," adds Mazur, who also interviewed Harvard
Professor of Armenian Studies James Russell about the matter.
Read the entire Harvard Political Review article.
http://hpronline.org/world/france-turkey-and-the-politics-of-genocide/