GROUP LAUNCHES VIGIL AGAINST ARMENIAN BILL
Dunya, Turkey
May 16 2006
A protest was launched yesterday against an Armenian bill to be
debated on Thursday by the French Parliament.
The committee set up by the Labor Party (IP) against the so-called
Armenian genocide claims will hold demonstrations for three days in
front of the French Embassy in Ankara and the Consulate General in
Izmir under the title “The Turkish-French Friendship Vigil.”
A group called the Armenian Genocide Lie with Armenian Documents Grand
Project 2006 Counseling Board started the same action at Place de la
Concorde in Paris.
Meanwhile, France’s Ambassador to Ankara Paul Poudade yesterday said
that the French government was opposed to the Armenian bill set for
debate at the Parliament on Thursday.