Turkish Media Lie Saying Armenian Leadership against Genocide Bill

PanARMENIAN.Net - Hurriyet Turkish newspaper in an article titled "Chorus of voices rises to condemn French genocide denial bill" reports of some "sources from Armenia" which say that the Armenian Genocide bill has already lost the support of leading Armenians, from President Robert Kocharian to top ranked Armenian Orthodox Church members. The article says, in part, that President Kocharian allegedly told French President Jacques Chirac, during his visit to Yerevan last week, that "this law, if enacted, will ruin the small steps we have taken towards peace with Turkey, it will ruin our relations." Kocharian then allegedly asked Chirac to remove the debate on the bill from the French Parliament's agenda.



As PanARMENIAN.Net came to know from reliable sources, the information spread by the Turkish media on the threshold of the voting on the French bill penalizing the Armenian Genocide denial is absolutely false. This is mere misinformation that suits the Turkish policy.