ANKARA: Tusiad sends letter to French deputies, senators

Turkish Press
May 11 2006

Press Review

HURRIYET

TUSIAD SENDS LETTER TO FRENCH DEPUTIES, SENATORS WARNING ABOUT
HARMFUL BILL

The Turkish Industrialists’ and Businessmen’s Association (TUSIAD)
sent a letter this week to French parliamentarians rebuffing the
genocide allegations at the heart of a new bill criminalizing denial
of the `genocide’ and also warning of the damage bilateral relations
could suffer over the measure. The letter signed by TUSIAD Chairman
Omer Sabanci was sent to 577 deputies and 331 senators, and also said
that the proposed bill would have a chilling effect on freedom of
expression and historical research. /Hurriyet/

From: Emil Lazarian | Ararat NewsPress

Emil Lazarian

“I should like to see any power of the world destroy this race, this small tribe of unimportant people, whose wars have all been fought and lost, whose structures have crumbled, literature is unread, music is unheard, and prayers are no more answered. Go ahead, destroy Armenia . See if you can do it. Send them into the desert without bread or water. Burn their homes and churches. Then see if they will not laugh, sing and pray again. For when two of them meet anywhere in the world, see if they will not create a New Armenia.” - WS