The French Parliament has passed a bill that makes it a crime to deny the mass killings of Armenians during the Ottoman empire was genocide. Turkey has called the move "irresponsible" and has threatened to permanantly cut ties with France.
Turkey has reacted with fury to a vote by French lawmakers to outlaw denial of the 1915 Armenian genocide, immediately cutting military ties and warning of "irreparable damage" to relations. "This is politics based on racism, discrimination and xenophobia," thundered Prime Minister Recep Tayyip E...
www.euronews.net As the French Senate debates a controversial new law that would make it illegal to deny the killing of Armenians by the Ottoman Empire was a genocide, supporters and opponents of the bill demonstrated outside the Senate building in Paris. The row has been rumbling on, causing dip...
Around 4000 Turkish expatriates living in France gathered outside parliament in Paris on Thursday to protest against the vote on a bill to ban the denial of the Armenian genocide of 1915. Duration: 01:18
www.euronews.net There was a festive mood outside the French embassy in Yerevan as Armenians celebrated the passing of a French law making it illegal to deny that the killing of Armenians by Ottoman Turks was genocide. Many expressed their gratitude to France and French President Nicolas Sarkozy,...
French senators have passed a bill outlawing the denial of Armenian genocide in 1915, with a seething Turkey slamming the move and warning of consequences while Armenia hailed a day "written in gold." The French Senate on Monday approved, by 127 votes to 86, the measure which threatens with jail ...
www.euronews.net Turkey has recalled its ambassador from Paris in protest at France's first steps towards criminalising the denial of genocide. Under French law, the mass killing of Armenians by Ottoman Turks in 1915 is genocide, something rejected by Turkey and French-Turks protesting outside th...
www.euronews.net Despite protests from France's Turkish community, the lower house of parliament in Paris has backed a bill making the denial of genocide a crime. For France, this covers the mass killing of Armenians by Ottoman Turks in 1915. But that puts it at odds with Ankara which rejects the...
The French senate is set to debate a bill to outlaw the denial of the Armenian genocide on Monday. It comes after a Senate Committee voted on Wednesday against the bill saying it could be unconstitutional. If passed, France will face a number of sanctions from Turkey. Duration: 01:45
Associate Professor Taner Akcam, the Robert Aram, Marianne Kaloosdian and Stephen and Marion Mugar Chair in Armenian Genocide Studies, was interviewed by the BBC's Zeinab Badawi regarding a French bill that would criminalize denial of the Armenian Genocide. The interview aired live during the Wor...
Turkey has vowed to retaliate, after the French Senate approved a bill making it a crime to deny that the massacre of Armenians by the Ottoman empire in 1915, was genocide. Ankara has already suspended military, political and economic ties with Paris.Both houses of the French parliament have pass...
Turkey is recalling its ambassador from France in response to the decision of lawmakers in Paris to pass a bill that outlaws genocide denial, including the mass killing of Armenians, by Ottoman Turks in 1915. If approved by the Senate, the punishment for offenders could result in a year in prison...
