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  • Siamanto
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    Turkey warns France Armenian bill will hit trade, bilateral ties

    Agence France Presse -- English
    October 6, 2006 Friday

    Turkey warned France on Friday that bilateral political and economic
    ties will suffer if the French parliament approves a law making it
    a punishable offence to deny the Armenian "genocide."

    "The Armenian issue has poisoned bilateral ties in the past, but the
    bill will inflict irreparable damage on our relationship," foreign
    ministry spokesman Namik Tan told a press conference here.

    He warned the move could jeopardise "investments, the fruit of years
    of work, and France will -- so to speak -- lose Turkey."

    France is one of Turkey's main trade partners, with a volume of 8.2
    billion euros (10 billion dolars) in 2005.

    Tan appealed to the French parliament to block the bill.

    "Our expectation is that France will to avoid taking the wrong step,"
    he said, arguing that adoption of the bill would mean the elimination
    of freedom of expression in France.

    The French National Assembly is expected to convene on October 12 to
    discuss the bill that would make denying Armenians were the victims
    of a genocide during World War I punishable by up to five years in
    prison and a fine of 45,000 euros (57,000 dollars).

    The bill follows on a 2001 French law officially recognizing the
    massacres as genocide.

    In French law, the same punishment is applicable to those deny that
    the xxxish Holocaust took place.

    "If the bill is adopted on October 12, the Turkish people will see
    it as a hostile act by France ... It will not be possible to contain
    public reaction," Tan said, referring to a possible boycott of French
    goods in Turkey.

    The Armenian bill, drawn up by the Socialist opposition, was first
    brought to the French assembly in May, but the vote was postponed to
    October after filibustering by the ruling party.

    Turkey had at the time threatened trade sanctions against France and
    briefly summoned its ambassador in Paris back for consultations.

    Tan said Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan would meet the
    French business community in Turkey in Istanbul on Saturday to discuss
    the bill.

    Turkish Foreign Minister Abdullah Gul was expected to call his French
    counterpart Philippe Douste-Blazy, an opponent of the bill, later
    Friday, he added.

    The Armenian massacres constitute one of the most controversial
    episodes in Turkish history, often sending nationalist feelings
    into frenzy.

    Armenians allege up to 1.5 million of their kin were slaughtered in
    orchestrated killings between 1915 and 1917 when the Ottoman Empire,
    the predecessor of modern Turkey, was falling apart.

    Turkey denies the claim, saying 300,000 Armenians and at least as
    many Turks died in civil strife when the Armenians took up arms for
    independence in eastern Anatolia and sided with invading Russian
    troops; it categorically rejects the genocide label.


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  • Siamanto
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    Armenian Genocide Denial by a Few Candidates May Upset Dutch Election

    PanARMENIAN.Net
    06.10.2006 17:28 GMT+04:00

    /PanARMENIAN.Net/ Dutch MP candidates had clearly stated in the past
    that, in their view, the Genocide of Armenians in Turkey in 1915 had
    not taken place.

    This view is contrary to the official policy of the Dutch government
    and of the parties themselves, stated columnist RadioNetherlands
    Andy Clark, the Federation of Armenian Communities of Holland
    told PanARMENIAN.Net. "It might seem a little strange but the
    Armenian Genocide of 1915 has become an issue in the run up to the
    Dutch elections. The two leading parties in the opinion polls have
    kicked out prospective MPs because they deny that the Genocide took
    place. The candidates, one from the opposition Labour Party and two
    from the biggest coalition party - the Christian Democrat CDA - are
    Dutch/Turkish politicians. It made the headlines after questions were
    raised by the Armenian community in the Netherlands when the names of
    the candidates were made public on the party lists for the November
    elections, and a heated discussion soon followed," the columnist notes.

    He cites Tineke Huizinga from the Christian Union - a small party
    in the parliament which introduced an initiative in 2004 saying that
    the government has to push for recognition of the genocide in Turkey
    as part of the negotiations for Turkey's desired accession to the
    EU. That initiative was unanimously accepted. Ms Huzinga explains
    the official Dutch position: "More than one and a half million people
    were murdered during the time of World War I by Turkey and this was
    a genocide and you can absolutely compare this with the Holocaust."

    It was a clash with this position that brought the CDA candidates
    Ayhan Tonca, Osman Elamci and Labour Party candidate Erdinc Sacan
    into problems with their parties. Ayhan Tonca has constantly denied
    the genocide occurred: "The genocide that people talk about never
    took place." Although he doesn't deny that hundreds of thousands of
    people died, he argues that there needs to be further investigation
    to see if the killings were consciously carried out by the Turkish
    government at that time. Deliberate and conscious persecution would
    constitute genocide, the Dutch Radio columnist underscored.



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  • Siamanto
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    TURKS IN NETHERLANDS REJECT POLITICS OVER ARMENIAN ISSUE

    Playfuls.com, Romania
    Oct 5 2006

    The large Turkish minority in the Netherlands is considering a boycott
    of the Dutch elections in November as a result of pressure on Turkish
    candidates to acknowledge that Armenians suffered genocide in 1915,
    the daily Volkskrant reported Thursday.

    "Many of the 400,000 Turks in the Netherlands regard themselves as
    no longer welcome and are turning their backs on politics," Sabri
    Kenan Bagci, chairman of the IOT organization that speaks for Turkish
    interests, told the daily Volkskrant.

    Bagci said he had called a national meeting of leading Turks in
    Utrecht on Sunday in response to a growing crisis over the issue
    within the community.

    Turkish candidates for the November 22 elections have come under
    pressure from their parties to publicly acknowledge the deaths of
    hundreds of thousands of Armenians during World War I as an act
    of genocide.

    The largest party in the Dutch parliament, the Christian Democrats
    (CDA), has pulled two Turkish candidates from its electoral list,
    while the main opposition Labour Party (PvdA) has dropped one.

    Over the weekend the CDA placed another Turk on its list, but was
    immediately accused of "tokenism."

    Talip Demirhan, who spent eight years on the CDA's management board,
    expressed his anger over the pressure on Turkish candidates.

    "We are being asked whether our great-grandfather was a mass
    murderer. If he was, then as far as I'm concerned he can go to hell,
    but why should I have to acknowledge responsibility to the average
    Dutch citizen," Demirhan, 63, told the Volkskrant.

    He poured scorn on the notion that this had to do with Dutch "norms
    and values."

    The issue is highly sensitive in Turkey itself. The European Parliament
    last week voted to withdraw a requirement that Turkey acknowledge the
    Armenian genocide as part of the conditions for Turkish membership
    of the European Union.

    Turkish public opinion has taken a keen interest in the controversy in
    the Netherlands, where official statistics put the number of residents
    of Turkish origin at 365,000 in a population of 16.3 million.



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  • Siamanto
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    ARGENTINA MAY PASS LAW TO DESIGNATE APRIL 24 AS GENOCIDE REMEMBRANCE DAY

    Armenpress

    YEREVAN, OCTOBER 6, ARMENPRESS: Armenian ambassador to Argentina,
    Vladimir Karmirshalian, told Armenpress that this Latin American
    nation may pass a law to designate April 24 as the official Armenian
    Genocide Remembrance Day.

    The ambassador said the local Armenian community is working hard to
    push for such a law. He said two major Argentinean states of Buenos
    Aires and Cordoba have passed laws designating April 24 as the Day
    of Armenian Genocide Remembrance.

    These state laws make teaching genocide at schools an obligatory
    subject of curriculum. The town of Buenos Aires has also passed a law
    designating April 24 as the Day of Remembrance of Armenian Genocide.

    Argentina's parliament has passed several resolutions since 1985
    condemning the Armenian genocide and demanding that Turkey acknowledges
    this crime. The Senate of Argentina passed a harsh resolution in 2005
    July demanding that Turkey admits this crime, but Argentine has passed
    no law to recognize the Armenian genocide officially.


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  • Siamanto
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    CDA candidates recognize Armenian Genocide

    ANP
    22 September 2006

    THE HAGUE (ANP) - CDA parliamentary members Ayhan Tonca and Osman
    Elmaci recognize that Turkey committed a genocide against the Armenians
    in 1915. In a statement, they said that they conform to the motion
    of the ChristenUnie, in which the Armenian Genocide is addressed.

    In December 2004, the Parliament, initiated by the ChristenUnie,
    unanimously agreed that the Dutch government should continuously raise
    the Armenian massacres in all of its negotiations with Turkey in the
    framework of Turkey's accession to the EU. According to the Armenian
    community in the Netherlands, the two CDA candidates had, until now,
    only expressed Turkey's official view that an Armenian Genocide was
    never committed.

    This week, the Federation of Armenian Organizations in the Netherlands
    (FAON) asked the CDA party administration about Tonca's (35th place
    on the concept-candidate list) and Elmaci's (56) standpoint on the
    genocide. The genocide has been recognized as fact by the United
    Nations since 1985. In 1915, an estimated 1.5 million Armenians
    perished.


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  • Siamanto
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    CDA Candidates Deny Genocide by Turks
    By our correspondents

    Trouw (Dutch national newspaper)
    21-09-06

    Two candidates on CDA's (Christian Democrats) list for the
    parliamentary elections in November deny the Armenian Genocide,
    while the party believes that Turkey should recognize the genocide.

    It concerns two candidates of Turkish descent: Ayhan Tonca (in 35th
    place) and Osman Elmaci (56). For a long time, Tonca has called the
    genocide a lie. Elmaci recently clarified his views in a letter to the
    Parliament. The letter is available on the website of TV-program NOVA,
    which explored this issue yesterday.

    Elmaci writes that ChristenUnie's proposal to penalize the denial of
    genocide goes against the pillars of freedom of speech. He points
    to the fact that there are 300,000 Turks in the Netherlands who do
    not believe in the Armenian Genocide of 1915 and sums up the Turkish
    arguments.

    Tonca is the chairman of the Islamic Foundation in the Netherlands
    (ISN), the Dutch chapter of Diyanet, the Turkish Ministry of
    Religious Affairs. ISN also oversees most of the Turkish mosques in
    the Netherlands. In Turkish circles, people are questioning how Tonca
    can function as a representative of the people when he is tied hands
    and feet to the Turkish government.

    On Elmaci's website (www.osmanelmaci.nl), there are indications
    that he is affiliated with right-winged nationalist Turkish
    organizations. Earlier, both Elmaci and Tonca criticized the
    proposal of the ChristenUnie in an e-mail discussion with local
    Turkish politicians.

    CDA's chairwoman, Marja van Blijsterveldt, responds in a reaction
    that she respects Tonca's views, but that they are not the views of
    the fraction, nor of the party.

    The Armenian Genocide happened in 1915, when Turkey was allied with
    Germany. Turks deported Armenians to Syria when they began to question
    their loyalty.


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  • Siamanto
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    Turkish CDA members gone due to Armenia-row

    NOS (Dutch news agency)
    26 September 2006

    The Turkish CDA (Christian Democrats) members Tonca and Elmaci are no longer
    candidate MPs. The CDA decided to remove them from the list after commotion
    over the recognition of the Armenian Genocide.

    Tonca and Elmaci have continuously denied that Turks committed genocide
    against the Armenians in 1915. As candidate MPs, they subscribed this week
    to the CDA's standpoint that a genocide was committed. Today, they
    nevertheless took those words back in a Turkish newspaper.

    Earlier, the PvdA (Labor Party) administration removed Erdinc Sacan from the
    candidate's list. He did not subscribe to the PvdA's standpoint on the
    genocide by Turks.


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  • bell-the-cat
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    Regarding previous posters name...

    WTF?

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  • bell-the-kat
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    Originally posted by TomServo
    Sedat Laciner's articles are laughable and so is "Turkish Weekly."
    I agree with you, but in your opinion, what does the average Turk think of this guy's writings? Do they consider him legitimate?

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  • TomServo
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    Sedat Laciner's articles are laughable and so is "Turkish Weekly."

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