ARMENIANS IN FRANCE PROTEST AGAINST TALAAT PASHA ACTION IN BERLIN

PanARMENIAN.Net
17.03.2006 00:12 GMT+04:00

/PanARMENIAN.Net/ March 15 demonstrations were held in French cities
of Paris, Marseilles and Valence against Talaat Pasha commemoration
in Berlin. The participants of the meeting emphasized inadmissibility
of Turkey’s denialist policy, noting “This Turkey does not have a
place in a democratic world”.

The court of Land Berlin had prevented the police from prohibiting
the so-called Talaat Pasha Action scheduled for March 18-19. However
human rights organizations and political figures supported the
police and censured the court’s decision, which will be appealed in
the supreme legal instances. They called upon the leadership to bar
actions targeted at denial of genocides and crimes of war, reported
Yerkir Media TV Channel. To remind, the other day the German police
barred a series of rallies the Turkish organizations planned to hold
in Berlin in mid March.

The prohibition was based upon Article 189 of the German Criminal
Code, which bars to express “disrespect for the dead”. In its
statement the German authorities used expression “dead in 1915”
to avoid term Armenian Genocide. The rallies are planned to start
with an event titled Talaat Pasha Action within “Big Program – 2006”
initiative advanced by a number of Turkish political figures urging
the Bundestag to withdraw the Resolution on the Armenian Genocide.