Turkey clutches at straws to promote genocide denial policy

PanARMENIAN.Net - Turkey seems so hopeless over the possibility of adoption of the bill criminalizing Armenian Genocide denial by the French Senate that it stands ready to use any statement to pursue its denial policy.

Turkish ultra-nationalist Aydinlik newspaper recently placed French politician Robert Badinter’s photo on its cover to express gratitude for opposing the Genocide bill in the Senate as a tool to back its denial policy.

Such a stance is deemed a little strange as a number of countries have officially recognized the Armenian Genocide. A question arouses: What can make Badinter to recognize Genocide as a fact?

Meanwhile, Turkish newspaper once again proved unfoundedness of Turkey’s diplomacy that repeatedly resorts to aforesaid steps to promote its ideas.

Earlier, Constitutional Commission of the French Senate passed a decision against debating of the bill criminalizing Armenian Genocide denial, accepting Senators’ solicitation that oppose the aforesaid legislation.

On December 22, 2011, French National Assembly passed a bill criminalizing public denial of the Armenian Genocide. If passed and signed into law by the Senate, the bill would impose a 45,000 euro fine and a year in prison for anyone in France who denies this crime against humanity committed by the Ottoman Empire.