Reporters Without Borders in Paris urged parliamentarians to refer the bill adopted on Monday to make it a crime to deny Armenian allegations on the Ottoman era incidents of 1915 to the Constitutional Council.
A letter by Jean-Francois Julliard, secretary general of Reporters Without Borders, said that parliamentarians must demand the bill’s referral to the Council, because it was against freedom of expression and the constitution.
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Thousands of Turks from across Europe marched through the French capital on Saturday to denounce a bill that would make it a crime to deny that the killing of Armenians by Ottoman Turks nearly a century ago was genocide. Read more…
The French Senate is scheduled to vote on Monday on a law that would penalize those who deny genocide, taking another step along a path that has already damaged France’s relations with Turkey. Read more…
In an article published on January 19, the Los Angeles Times has said that the “French Senate should reject a bill criminalizing the denial of Armenian allegations pertaining to the incidents of 1915″.
Titled “Speech crimes and France” and written by Timothy Garton Ash, a senior fellow at the Hoover Institution at Stanford University and professor of European studies at Oxford University, the article says that “On Monday, the French Senate is scheduled to debate and possibly vote on a bill that would criminalize denial of the Armenian allegations pertaining to the incidents of 1915. The bill has passed the lower house of Parliament. Read more…
Selman Can’s research on 19th century Ottoman architecture reveals the real architects of Ottoman buildings. ‘The Balyans, known as the architects of in the Ottoman, were actually contractors,’ he says
Istanbul’s Çırağan Palace’s history consultant Associate Professor Selman Can said the Balyans, one of the well-known Armenian families of the Ottoman Empire, were not the architects of 19th century Ottoman structures but the architect’s contractors. Read more…