Parlemen Perancis baru saja meloloskan UU yang menyebut pembantaian
rakyat Armenia pada tahun 1915 oleh Khilafah Ustmani sebagai
"genocide" (pembasmian etnis).
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/6043730.stm
Foto2 korban genocide Turki Utsmani dan sejarahnya:
http://www.armenian-genocide.org/
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Armenian_genocide
French in Armenia 'genocide' row
Ethnic Armenian campaigners in France hailed the result
The French parliament has adopted a bill making it a crime to deny that
Armenians suffered "genocide" at the hands of the Turks, infuriating Turkey.
The bill, proposed by the Socialists and opposed by the government, needs
approval from the Senate and president. Turkey called the decision a "serious
blow" to relations with France. It has already threatened economic sanctions.
Armenia says Ottoman Turks killed 1.5 million people systematically in 1915 - a
claim strongly denied by Turkey. The European Commission has said that the
bill, if passed into law, will "prohibit dialogue which is necessary for
reconciliation" between Turkey and Armenia on the issue. The
opposition against Turkey in the EU has begun to present an ugly face
Cengiz Candar
Turkish commentator
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Turkey has been warning France for weeks not to pass the bill.
"Turkish-French relations, which have been meticulously developed over the
centuries, took a severe blow today through the irresponsible initiatives of
some short-sighted French politicians, based on unfounded allegations," the
Turkish foreign ministry said. Nobel prize The bill sponsored by the
opposition Socialist party provides for a year in jail and a 45,000-euro
(£30,000) fine - the same punishment that is imposed for denying the Nazi
Holocaust.
Q&A: Armenian genocide
Turkish writer wins Nobel prize
The ruling Union for a Popular Movement (UMP) did not back the law, but gave
its deputies a free vote. It passed by 106 votes to 19, after most deputies
left the chamber in protest against what critics say is an attempt to attract
votes of the some 500,000 people of Armenian descent in presidential elections
next year. Ethnic Armenians in Paris celebrated the result. "The memory of
the victims is finally totally respected," said Alexis Govciyan. But French
Prime Minister Dominique de Villepin distanced himself from the bill. It is
"not a good thing to legislate on issues of history and of memory," he said.
The vote came as controversial Turkish writer Orhan Pamuk won the 2006 Nobel
Prize in Literature. He has faced prosecution in Turkey for talking about
the murder of hundreds of thousands of Armenians during World War I and
thousands of Kurds in subsequent years. The charges have since been dropped.
EU membership bid Debate on the Armenian
issue has been stifled in Turkey. Arguments have raged for
decades about the Armenian deaths
The official Turkish position states that many Christian Armenians and Muslim
Turks died in fighting during World War I - but that there was no genocide.
The BBC's Sarah Rainsford in Istanbul says many Turks are angry at what they
see as double standards in the EU, where opinions are sharply divided about
whether Turkey should be allowed to join. Turkey's chief negotiator in EU
membership talks, Ali Babacan, said: "This is violating one of the core
principles of the European Union, which is freedom of expression." "Leave
history to historians," he added. France's President Chirac and Interior
Minister Nicolas Sarkozy have both said Turkey will have to recognise the
Armenian deaths as genocide before it joins the EU - though this is not the
official EU position. There are accusations in Turkey that the Armenian
diaspora and opponents of Turkey's EU membership bid are using this issue to
prevent Turkey joining the 25-member bloc.
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