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French Bill on Armenian Genocide Being Widely Commented in World Media
13.10.2006 18:06 GMT+04:00

/PanARMENIAN.Net/ The adoption of the French bill on the Armenian
Genocide is being commented in various media throughout the globe. The
New York Times reports that Chirac’s government standing against the
bill expressed wish to continue dialogue with Turkey. `We are willing
to carry on our dialogue, strong cooperation and friendship with
Turkey,’ the newspaper quotes the French MFA Spokesman.

The complex relationship between Turkey and Europe played out Thursday
in two European capitals, as Turkey’s leading novelist was awarded the
2006 Nobel Prize in literature in Stockholm and French lawmakers here
passed a bill that would make it a crime to deny that Ottoman Turkey
committed genocide against Armenians during and after World War I,
reports the Washington Post.

The Guardian says, `Ataturk, one of whose adopted daughters was an
Armenian survivor of the forced death marches, should have – but never
could – bring himself to face the truth, possibly because of his shame
at what his brother army officers had ordered while he was in
Gallipoli fighting off the British,’ reports RFE/RL.