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    CYPRUS CRIMINALISES DENIAL OF 1915 ARMENIAN GENOCIDE BY TURKS

    April 2nd, 2015 George Psyllides Cyprus

    Cyprus

    Cyprus on Thursday made it a crime to deny that Ottoman Turks committed
    genocide against Armenian Turks a century ago.

    The Cypriot parliament passed a resolution penalising denial of
    genocide, crimes against humanity and war crimes, modifying existing
    legislation, which required prior conviction by an international
    court to make denial a crime.

    "Today is a historic day," speaker of parliament Yiannakis Omirou
    said. "It allows parliament to restore, with unanimous decisions and
    resolutions, historical truths."

    The island was one of the first countries worldwide in 1975 to
    recognise the Armenian killings as genocide. It is commemorated on
    April 24.

    The nature and scale of the killings remain highly contentious. Turkey
    accepts that many Armenians died in partisan fighting beginning in
    1915, but denies that up to 1.5 million were killed and that this
    constituted an act of genocide - a term used by many Western historians
    and foreign parliaments.

    Armenia accuses the Ottoman authorities at the time of systematically
    massacring large numbers of Armenians, then deporting many more,
    including women, children and the elderly and infirm in terrible
    conditions on so-called death marches.

    The issue has long been a source of tension between Turkey and
    several Western countries, especially the United States and France,
    both home to large ethnic Armenian diasporas. Cyprus too has an
    Armenian population.

    http://cyprus-mail.com/?p=48314



    From: Emil Lazarian | Ararat NewsPress
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