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    Anti-Armenian Talat PaÅ?a Committee barred from entering Athens

    January 9, 2015


    The Talat PaÅ?a Committee, a Turkish nationalist organization aiming to
    counter recognition of the the Armenian Genocide, has been refused
    entry to Athens, where it had gone to issue a statement in protest at
    a recently approved Greek bill.

    The members of the committee left for Athens on Jan. 9 with the aim of
    making a statement in front of the Greek Parliament.

    The committee wanted to protest and demand the withdrawal of a
    controversial bill approved by Greece's parliament in September that
    stiffens penalties for racially motivated crime and criminalizes the
    denial of genocide and war crimes.

    The delegation of 13 people was intercepted by police at the airport
    and prevented from entering the city for `security reasons.' They were
    sent back to Turkey on the next flight.

    The Greek Parliament adopted by a vote of 54 to 42, on Sept. 9, 2014,
    an anti-hate crime law ' Combating Discrimination, Xenophobia, and
    Racism ' making it illegal to deny the Jewish Holocaust, and genocides
    recognized by international courts or by the Greek Parliament, i.e.,
    the genocide of Pontus Greeks, the genocide of Asia Minor Greeks, and
    the Armenian Genocide. Those violating this new law would be fined up
    to 30,000 euros, and imprisoned for up to three years.

    The Greek law stems from the European Union's 2008 `Framework Decision
    against Racism and Xenophobia,' which urged all EU states to adopt
    laws that punish racism, xenophobia, denial of genocide, crimes
    against humanity, and war crimes.


    http://www.horizonweekly.ca/news/details/57786

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