Tags: "France Genocide Law"

02 Aug
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THE LEMKIN HOLE IN THE SWISS CASE

by Tal Buenos* of University of Utah “When Raphael Lemkin coined the word genocide in 1944 he cited the annihilation of Armenians as a seminal example of genocide.” This is an entirely false statement as Lemkin did not mention Armenians ...

07 Mar
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French judge assures Gül over ‘genocide denial

The head of the French high court, Jean-Louis Debré, has assured President Abdullah Gül that the French Constitutional Council’s decision to annul the bill penalizing the denial of Armenian genocide is a permanent one and will not change, the Hürriyet ...

12 Feb
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Fransa’nın nafile ‘soykırım’ çabası

Fransa Ermeni Örgütleri Koordinasyon Konseyi’nin (CCAF) Fransa’nın 29 Ocak 2011’de kabul ettiği “Fransa 1915 Ermeni soykırımını açıkça tanır” yasasının yıldönümünde yaptığı toplantıya hükümeti temsilen Fransa Adalet Bakanı Christiane Taubira katıldı. Taubira, yaptığı konuşmada, “Cumhurbaşkanı Hollande’ın aldığı angajman bağlamında, “Hükümetimiz anayasanın ...

04 Feb
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Turkey says ECHR ruling on ‘genocide’ a milestone

The Turkish Foreign Ministry has applauded the Dec. 18 ruling of the European Court of Human Rights (ECHR), which stated that denying that the mass killing of Armenians in Ottoman Turkey in 1915 was genocide was not a criminal offence.

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