MosJan Posted October 27, 2006 Report Share Posted October 27, 2006 LASHING OUT AT FRANCE AGAIN * A few days ago a new heading in French appeared at the official website of Istanbul’s tourism department that protests against the October 12 decision of France’s National Assembly. The text full of errors announces that "has never committed a genocide throughout its history… the French does not have clear idea of our European continent… and came into existence in 1923 therefore there were neither Turks nor a Turkish army in 1915." Such statements require no comments. This information was sent to the daily by Jean Eskiyan from France. Mr. Eskiyan added that more than 900 French websites, including those of municipalities, universities, major organizations and French-Armenian communities, were attacked by Turkish hackers after the October 12. As of October 23, these websites were not restored. The Turkish hackers got special training in 2003 and are united under RSF (Rooting Sabotage Forced) abbreviation. * By Hakob Tsulikian Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MosJan Posted October 27, 2006 Report Share Posted October 27, 2006 FRENCH SENATE AGAINST ARMENIAN GENOCIDE BILL? * article's photo “The majority in the French Senate object against the Armenian bill,” writes the Sabah. Senate Group Head of the ruling party UMP Josselin Rohan said: "If the Armenian Genocide bill comes to the Senate, we will object to it with all our might. Our relationship with Turkey can not be taken in pawn." “This draft is a diplomatic mistake. It does not have any use to anybody, but it is harmful in many aspects," she said. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gamavor Posted October 30, 2006 Report Share Posted October 30, 2006 No matter what, even if we all somehow agree that the move of the French parliament was just what it was - a political trick, it still makes a lot of sense. EU bureaucrats holding seats in EU commission, hailing from countries that have traditionally good economic relations with Turkey, do not want to sacrifice the golden chicken for the sake of the genocide recognition. Understandable. However, EU bureaucrats have grown up enough in their understanding of Turkey and the Turkish political system and realized that many of the current turkish laws are simply contrary to the European spirit and quite right to the European norms. As the said bureaucrats admitted, it is too late to include new preconditions to the Turkish membership. One of them said that changing the rules of the games when the game already started is inadmissible. But yet again, having a clause that stipulates criminal persecution for offending the "turkishness" in the penal code is out right anachronism. The vote in favor of the criminalization of the denial of the Armenian genocide gives Europeans a bargaining chip in their hands without changing the initial accession criteria for Turkey. The logic is: OK, we would abandon the criminalization of the Armenian genocide, but you would get rid of article 301 of your Penal Code. As to the Americans....they are the least that should talk about freedom of speech. How about the AMERICAN PATRIOT ACT. Isn't that just blunt violation of the American constitution? Yes, it is but the sheep Americans are silent. All in all, everything is already decided. Turkey eventually will become member of EU. We need to make sure that the border between Armenia and Europe remains CLOSE and SEALED, except for business. My personal opinion is that the border should remain close no matter where the border line passes. The only way that the Armenian-Turkish border could be opened is when Europe opens WIDE their borders to Africans, Asians and Eskimo. The Turks should be able in the true spirit of Europe to travel, work and live freely anywhere in Europe. We however, should have the privilege as NON-EUROPEANS to decide what is bad and what is good for US, without being strangled in the European principles of solidarity, equality and blah, blah, blah…We will witness some interesting developments pretty soon... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MosJan Posted October 31, 2006 Report Share Posted October 31, 2006 TURKEY AND AZERBAIJAN UNVEIL MISLEADING INFORMATION * Gagik Yeganyan, head of migration and refugees department of Armenia, said Turkish Prime Minister Erdogan and Foreign Minister Abdullah Giul have again told a lie. The minister reportedly announced a year ago that there are 40,000 Armenians in Turkey. Concurrently, Turkey said she will deport 70,000 Armenians, illegally working in Turkey, in case France adopts a law punishing denial of the Armenian genocide. Yeganyan made a little survey to correct the number of Armenians working in Turkey. In his words, if Giul’s words were correct that 40,000 could not be added by another 30,000 in one year. Yeganyan beleives there are not more than 10,000 citizens in Armenia working in Turkey which is far from Erdogan’s stated 70,000. Similarly, Azerbaijan earlier reported they have 600,000 refugees and this number gradually reached 1 million. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MosJan Posted October 31, 2006 Report Share Posted October 31, 2006 Turkey: Tefal Third «Victim» of French Production Boycott 31.10.2006 14:04 GMT+04:00 Print version Send to mail In Russian In Armenian /PanARMENIAN.Net/ Turkish Consumers Union named Tefal as the third company to be brought under the boycott campaign against a new French company every week following the French Parliament's decision on October 12, 2006 concerning the Armenian Genocide. Consumers Union had initiated the boycott campaign with Total (Elf) petroleum retailer in the first week and brought L'Oreal under the boycott in the following week, reports Journal of Turkish Weekly. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MosJan Posted October 31, 2006 Report Share Posted October 31, 2006 French Bill on Genocide May Exacerbate EU-Turkey Dialogue 31.10.2006 13:29 GMT+04:00 Print version Send to mail In Russian In Armenian /PanARMENIAN.Net/ The bill criminalizing the denial of the Armenian Genocide adopted by the French Parliament will not promote exacerbation of «not existing Armenian-Turkish relations,» stated expert of Noravank scientific-cultural foundation Sevak Sarukhanyan. Most probably, in his words, the bill, adopted by the French National Assembly will exacerbate EU-Turkey dialogue, «France has clearly demonstrated it will object to Turkey's accession to the EU. It is clear that France is demonstrating its moral right to close EU door for Turkey,» Sarukhanyan said. In his opinion, EU demand for Turkey to lift the blockade of the land road to Armenia is more crystallizing today, reports the Caucasian Knot. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MosJan Posted November 2, 2006 Report Share Posted November 2, 2006 Turkish FM Says Armenia’s Border Mostly Open 01.11.2006 18:52 GMT+04:00 Print version Send to mail In Russian In Armenian /PanARMENIAN.Net/ “The Armenian-Turkish border is mostly open,” Turkish Foreign Minister Abdullah Gul said. In his words, 70 thousand Armenians live and work in Turkey at present and send finances to their relatives in Armenia. “Besides, there is air communication. This is a political issue and for most part depends of the Armenian government,” the Turkish FM said, reports RFE/RL. To note, Abdullah Gul is participating in the BSECO FMs’ sitting in Moscow. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MosJan Posted November 19, 2006 Report Share Posted November 19, 2006 Scandal between France and Turkey expands * article's photo Defense Minister Vecdi Gonul announced on late Thursday that France hasn't been officially invited to a defense industry fair over the French Parliament's passage of an Armenian bill last month, introducing punishments to those who question genocide claims. Gonul stated that Ankara gave a notice to French companies, instead of invitations, and added, "The French defense minister is a valuable government member. But he has not been formally invited here. We sent invitations to other countries." In related news, the Turkish Culture and Tourism Ministry canceled the invitation of the a French music company to perform a remembrance ceremony for Turkish poet and Sufi mystic Mevlana Rumi, reports The New Anatolian. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MosJan Posted December 20, 2006 Report Share Posted December 20, 2006 http://www.ibctoday.com/News/ViewNewsItem....ideoPanelType=1 In a phone talk with the Prime Minister of Turkey, Recep Tayyip Erdogan, the President of France, Jacques Chirac, has repeated again the words about the Armenian Genocide recognition, he said during his state visit to Yerevan. France’s official sources inform about it. A source in the French President's press-service has denied the information, spread in the Turkish Media, saying as if President Chirac had apologized or expressed regret in the phone talk with Prime Minister Erdogan for the Republic's Parliament, which approved the bill regarding the Armenian Genocide. ‘There was a phone talk in fact, however, we do not confirm the information, spread in the Turkish Media. In a phone talk with Prime Minister Erdogan, President Chirac has repeated the words he said in Yerevan, having stressed the importance of recognizing the Armenian Genocide by Ankara, if Turkey wishes to join the European Union’, the official source in the Elysian Palace informed. Meanwhile, the Prime Minister of Turkey announced that the French President expressed regret about the adoption of the bill on criminalizing the rejection of the Armenian Genocide. As Turkish sources inform, Jacque Chirac promised even to hinder the approving of the bill. The latter spoke about the Armenian Genocide in Yerevan, too, during his state visit. “I truly believe that every country grows on accepting its own mistakes. Does Germany loose its greatness or reputation while recognizing the Jewish State?! Just the opposite. And especially, if Turkey intends to join our institution, which has a concrete value system, it must recognize its past.” Tomorrow the Turkish Parliament will discuss the issue of answering steps against France. At the end of the session, an announcement criticizing France’s actions is expected. Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan, however, warned that the responses to France must be carefully done. Gohar Martirosyan, ‘Yerkirn Aysor’ (The Country Today). Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MosJan Posted February 17, 2007 Report Share Posted February 17, 2007 German court sentences Ernst Zundel to 5 years in prison for Holocaust denial 15.02.2007 18:45 GMT+04:00 Print version Send to mail In Russian In Armenian /PanARMENIAN.Net/ Far-right activist Ernst Zundel was convicted of 14 counts of incitement Thursday for Holocaust denial and sentenced to the maximum five years in prison. Zundel, 67, who was deported from Canada in 2005, was accused of years of anti-Semitic activities, including denying the Holocaust - a crime in Germany - in documents and on the Internet. Zundel and his supporters have argued that he is a peaceful campaigner who has been denied his right to free speech. Zundel has been a prominent white supremacist and Holocaust denier since the 1970s. Among other ventures, he ran Samisdat Publishers, a leading distributor of Nazi propaganda based in Canada. He also provided content to The Zundelsite website, which has followers around the world, hundreds of whom have protested his detention. Zundel was born in Germany in 1939. He immigrated to Canada in 1958 and lived in Toronto and Montreal until 2001. Canadian officials rejected his attempts to obtain citizenship in 1966 and 1994. Upon arrival in Toronto, Zundel was arrested and held in detention until a judge ruled in March 2005 that his activities posed a threat to national and international security, and he was deported to Germany. Zundel has been standing trial in Germany since November of last year in what were, at times, raucous proceedings. In the current trial, defence lawyer Ludwig Bock quoted from Adolf Hitler's "Mein Kampf" and from Nazi race laws in his closing statements last week as argued for Zundel's acquittal, reports canada.com. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MosJan Posted April 16, 2007 Report Share Posted April 16, 2007 TALAT ***** COMMITTEE CALLS ON FRANCE TO ABANDON ARMENIAN GENOCIDE BILL * article's photo Addressing a conference in Paris organized by the nationalist Talat ***** Committee and the Paris Association for Kemalist Thought (ADD), Talat ***** general secretary Ferit Ilsever said that France should abandon legislation that would make it a crime to deny the Armenian Genocide. “Last week the Turkish Minister of Justice and Turkish Ambassador to Paris, Osman Korutürk, called us to cancel the protest march we were planning in the Place de la Bastille, so as not to provoke the French. We have postponed it for now, but the protest will certainly take place in the near future,” Ilsever said. “We have come together to tell people that the proposed law regarding the denial of the Armenian Genocide is misleading the French public. The forced emigration that took place was in defense of the nation, there was no genocide, the nation was defending itself,” he said, Hurriyet reports. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Zartonk Posted April 16, 2007 Report Share Posted April 16, 2007 The forced emigration that took place was in defense of the nation, there was no genocide, the nation was defending itself,” he said, Hurriyet reports. So nations defend themselves by displacing subjects? Nicely argued, Bastard Committee. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MosJan Posted June 25, 2007 Report Share Posted June 25, 2007 FRANCE: VANDALS PROFANED ARMENIAN GENOCIDE MONUMENT * article's photo Two days after the vote of the French Parliament adopting the text of the bill penalizing the Armenian Genocide, the memorial set up in the town of Chaville, close to Versailles, was deteriorated in the night from the 13 to October 14. In fact, two plates engraved in bronze, dedicated to the victims of the Armenian Genocide were torn off from the base, forming a case in the background of the work of art. The police undertook an investigation immediately, independent French journalists Jean Ackian told PanARMENIAN.Net. The monument itself consists of a tangle of the letters of the Armenian alphabet, which form a cross in the center. * New memorial to Armenian Genocide victims inaugurated in Chaville 25.06.2007 14:51 GMT+04:00 http://panarmenian.net/news/images/ico_print.gif http://panarmenian.net/news/images/ico_mail.gif http://panarmenian.net/news/images/ico_rus.gif http://panarmenian.net/news/images/ico_arm.gif /PanARMENIAN.Net/ A new memorial to the Armenian Genocide victims was inaugurated in the French town of Chaville Sunday, June 24, 2007. Mayor of Chaville Jean Levain, Ambassador of Armenia in France Edward Nalbandian, Archbishop Nakachian and several French political figures, including Secretary of State for Civil Service Andre Santini, attended the ceremony. October 13, 2006, two days after the adoption of the French bill penalizing the Armenian Genocide denial, two vandals stole the 300-kg bronze monument with the purpose to sell it. The monument made up from combination of Armenian letters cost 50,000 euros and was gifted to Chaville by the Armenian community in 2002. http://panarmenian.net/news/photos/22768.jpg Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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