Hürriyet, Turkey
April 15 2007

Abandon genocide law, Talat Paþa tells France

Addressing a conference in Paris organised by the nationalist Talat
Paþa Committee and the Paris Association for Kemalist Thought (ADD),
Talat Paþa general secretary Ferit Ilsever said that France should
abandon legislation that would make it a crime to deny the Armenian
Genocide.

`Last week the Turkish Minister of Justice and Turkish Ambassador to
Paris, Osman Korutürk, called to ask us to cancel the protest march
we were planning in the Place de la Bastille, so as not to `provoke
the French’. We have postponed it for now, but the protest will
certainly take place in the near future, because we are of the belief
that Turkey has backed down one too many times and lost far too much
time in order not to provoke anyone. We have come together to tell
people that the proposed law regarding the denial of Armenian
Genocide is misleading the French public. The forced emigration that
took place was in defence of the nation, there was no genocide, the
nation was defending itself.’

Also attending the conference were Worker’s Party leader Doðu
Perinçek, Prof. Dr. Zekeriya Beyaz, Prof .Dr. Kemal Alemdaroðlu,
former National Movement Party (MHP) MP Mehmet Gül, retired
Lieutenant General Yaþar Müjdeci, ex-Senator Servet Bora and Paris
President of ADD Ali Rýza Taþdelen.

From: Emil Lazarian | Ararat NewsPress