French Bill on Armenian Genocide Being Widely Commented in World Media

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.