TURKISH NGO’S TO PROTEST FRANCE’S GENOCIDE RECOGNITION

ABHAber
March 13 2006

Turkish groups in France are set to join forces in Paris today to
work to overturn the French Parliament’s recognition of the so-called
Armenian genocide.

For the first meeting of an umbrella committee spearheaded by
local offices of the Anatolian Culture Centers and Kemalist Thought
Association, some 300 Turkish associations in France were invited.

Today’s meeting is going to be held to exchange ideas for the goals
and work of the committee. A public statement after the meeting
is planned to announce how the committee will campaign against the
legislative recognition.

At a press conference last week, the groups organizing the committee
meeting demanded that Parliament’s recognition of the “genocide” in
2001 be reversed, saying that judging history was up to the historians,
not lawmakers.