Anatolian Times, Turkey
May 14 2006
Turkish Parliamentary Delegation Continues Meetings In France
PARIS – Turkish Parliamentary delegation continues its lobbying
activities in Paris against the draft law which envisions
imprisonment to those “denying“ so-called Armenian genocide
(submitted by French Socialist Party).
The delegation, which is comprised of Justice & Development Party
(AKP) parliamentarians Mehmet Dulger and Musa Sivacioglu as well as
Republican People`s Party (CHP) parliamentarians Onur Oymen and
Gulsun Bilgehan Toker, held its first meeting with Herve de Charette,
deputy chairman of Foreign Affairs Commission of French Parliament.
Following the meeting, Dulger told A.A that parliamentarians of
French ruling Popular Movement Party (UMP) promised to do their best
to prevent adoption of the draft law at Parliament.
On the other hand, Oymen said, “we conveyed parliamentarians that if
the draft law is adopted, it will ham Turkish-French relations on a
large scale. From now on, relations between the two countries should
be based on a more different structure to eliminate lobbying
activities against Turkey.“
CHP parliamentarian Toker said, “this draft law is not moral. Even
if it is rejected, the draft law has already harmed Turkish-French
relations.“
The draft law will be debated at French Parliament on May 18th. It
must be accepted at senate to become law.