PressTV
Thu Dec 22, 2011
Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan has warned that Ankara may announce sanctions against Paris over a French legislation that criminalizes the denial of the “Armenian genocide by Turkish forces.”
In a statement broadcast by state media late Wednesday, the Turkish premier said, “Tomorrow probably I will announce what we will do at the first stage and we will announce what kind of sanctions we will have at the second and third stages,” AFP reported.
Ethnic Armenian residents in France allege that up to “1.5 million” of their ancestors were killed during World War I “by the forces of Turkey’s former Ottoman Empire.”
Ankara, however, has vehemently denied the allegation.
In 2001, France officially recognized the killing of Armenians as “genocide.”
On Thursday, the French parliament is expected to approve an extraordinary bill that would sentence “anyone in France who publicly denies the 1915 genocide to a year in prison and a fine of 45,000 euros (USD 58,000).”
Erdogan emphasized in his statement that the move, pushed by French President Nicolas Sarkozy’s ruling party, would “harm Franco-Turkish relations.”
The 400,000-strong Armenian population in France is expected to play a major role in the French president’s re-election battle in April 2012.
Last week, the Turkish premier strongly criticized France over the bill, saying, “Those who want to see genocide should turn around and look at their own dirty, bloody history.”
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In 1915, the Ottoman Empire (Current Turkey??) was under the invasion of French, British, Greek, Armenian… forces. Ottoman archives are open for historians. If you read those, you can tell terrible things happened for both sides. But I could not convince my self to call it “G word” with the available evidence. I want to read Armenian Archives as well but they are closed, so no idea.
Even all happened, despite I can’t find enough evidence to call it the “G word”, what ever you call it, terrible events or something else, I want to know “WHY DOES FRANCE BAN ME FROM DISCUSSING A HISTORICAL EVENT BY LAW? WHY I WILL BE ARRESTED FOR 1 YEAR 48,000EUR FINED IF I TALK ABOUT THAT EVENT?” Where is the France that has made Revolutions, where is the “RIGHT OF FREE SPEECH”, where are the “HUMAN RIGHTS”. France is betraying its own history of Renascence.
History should be concluded by HISTORIANS, not POLITICIANS.
During those terrible events of 1915, there were Armenian ministers and plenty of Armenian government workers who continued their duties in the Ottoman Empire during this period. In the 19th century, twenty-nine Armenians were granted the highest military-governmental rank of Pasha (General). There were twenty-two Armenian ministers in Ottoman Administration, including the Ministers of Foreign Affairs, Finance, Treasury, Trade and Post, with other Armenians holding high positions at the departments in charge of agriculture, economic development, and the census. There also were thirty-three Armenian representatives appointed and elected to the Ottoman Parliament, seven ambassadors, eleven consuls-general and consuls, eleven university professors, and forty-one other officials of high rank.
DOES THIS MAKE SENSE IF OTTOMANS WERE TRYING TO EXTINCT ARMENIANS? Were there any Jews working for German government during Hitler Germany?
Coming to the Sanctions on France: I don’t get how France ventures the idea of losing a G20 country, talking about 19 Billion USD trade, at those times of heavy depression, particularly knowing the fact that Turkey enjoys 8%, highest economical growth of the World, while rest of the Europe is in deep economical crises. This will effect both sides tremendously, but France more deeply (e.g. Turkish Airlines may buy planes from Boing, or let Russians build Nuclear plants ect.). The question is, who is gonna benefit from 100 Billion USD of energy bid rounds in the next 5-10 years? Probably not the France!