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 [...]
French Senator Nathalie Goulet has criticized a law penalizing denial of Armenian genocide allegations, saying she will go on a “crusade” to prevent the law’s approval by the Senate. “I will go on a crusade against Valeri Boyer’s draft law,” Goulet said, referring to a law that sought to penalize the denial of Armenian genocide [...]
Swiss foreign minister has urged Turkish and Armenian historians to investigate events earlier last century that have been primary cause of tensions between the two nations for decades. Micheline Calmy-Rey, who is also the president of the Swiss Confederation, told Turkish ambassadors in her keynote speech at Ambassadors Conference in Ankara on Monday that historians [...]
A new bill criminalizing the “denial” of the unsubstantiated “Armenian genocide” claims was introduced in the French National Assembly with the barely implicit support of Mr. Sarkozy. The co-chairmen of the Coordination Council of France’s Armenian Associations, namely Jean-Marc “Ara” Toranian, former spokesman of the terrorist group ASALA, and Mourad Papazian, unrepentant sympathizer of another [...]
Turkey’s Foreign Minister has blasted France for promulgating a “Middle Ages” mentality ahead of a French Parliament debate on a proposal to criminalize the denial of the “genocide” of Armenians, referring to events that took place in 1915. “If this proposal is legislated, France will pioneer the return of a Middle Ages mindset to Europe,” [...]