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Talat Pasha committee calls on France to abandon Armenian Genocide bill
16.04.2007 14:11 GMT+04:00

/PanARMENIAN.Net/ Addressing a conference in Paris organized by the
nationalist Talat Pasha Committee and the Paris Association for
Kemalist Thought (ADD), Talat Pasha 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 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,’ Ilsever said. `We have come together
to tell people that the proposed law regarding the denial of the
Armenian Genocide is misleading the French public. The forced
emigration that took place was in defense of the nation, there was no
genocide, the nation was defending itself,’ he said, Hurriyet reports.