EURONEWS: WOMEN AND CHILDREN KILLED IN 1915 DON’T LOOK LIKE GUERILLAS

PanARMENIAN.Net
11.10.2006 13:09 GMT+04:00

/PanARMENIAN.Net/ The Turkish parliament may pass a law on the genocide
perpetrated by the French in Algeria if the French parliament adopts
the bill penalizing the Armenian Genocide denial, Turkish Prime
Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan reiterated, reports Euronews.

Earlier Turkish Foreign Minister Abdullah Gul warned French businessmen
that in case of passing the bill the economic relations between the two
states will be blocked. Ankara also called on the European Commission
to exert pressure on Paris and dissuade France from adopting the
bill. EU Commissioner for Enlargement also attended to the problem
on Tuesday and called on the French lawmakers to weigh the possible
consequences of the motion.

The discussion of the bill is due in the French parliament October
12. If adopted it will provide for a 45 000 euros fine up to a year
in prison for denial of the Armenian Genocide.

Turkey warns that if this happens Turkish courts will set a 3-year
imprisonment for a phrase "France did not perpetrate a genocide
in Algeria." Despite the existing evidence Turkey insists that the
number of the killed Armenians was exaggerated and the majority of
those killed were guerillas.

Euronews showed the photos of killed women and children saying these
hardly could be guerillas.

Meanwhile, according to Zaman daily, chairman of the Algerian
parliamentary committee on foreign relations thanked the Turkish
parliament for the bill on "the genocide the French committed against
Algerians."