Hollande makes overtures to French-Armenian community regarding law on the criminalization of Armenian Genocide denial.
PARIS (Combined Sources)–Turkish ruling party leader and the former chairman of PACE on Monday warned that French president Francoise Hollande is “more dangerous than Sarkozy” when it comes to the issue of criminalizing the denial of the Armenian Genocide.
Meanwhile, Hollande has reached out to the French-Armenian community and reiterated his campaign pledge to shepherd a law that would criminalize the Armenian Genocide.
Interest was renewed in the Genocide law last week, when French foreign minister Laurent Fabius told his Turkish counterpart Ahmet Davutoglu that it was unlikely that the law criminalizing the denial of the Armenian Genocide would be “resurrected.”
However, Monday’s attacks by Mevlut Cavusoglu are is stark contrast to reports that Ankara ended all sanctions it has imposed on France following the passage of the bill in the two houses of the French parliament. Davutoglu confirmed his government’s intentions while meeting with Fabius in Paris last week.
“Incumbent President of France Francoise Hollande is more dangerous than ex-President Nicolas Sarkkozy in regard to the criminalization of the denial of the Armenian Genocide,” Cavusoglu, who is a leading member of the ruling AKP party and the former president of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe said in an interview with SalamNews.
“It was Hollande’s Party that proposed to put the bill criminalizing the Armenian Genocide denial on the agenda. Although the bill was proposed by Sarkozy’s party last year, most of its supporters were from Hollande’s party,” Cavusoglu explained.
“Hollande has promised to adopt the bill, and he is now trying to realize it. From this point of view Hollande is much more dangerous than Nicolas Sarkozy,” reiterated Cavusolgu.
Hollande, over the weekend, said he would honor his promise to reintroduce a new bill that will make the denial of the Armenian Genocide in France a crime.
During a phone conversation with Armenian Revolutionary Federation leader and the co-chairman of the Coordinating Council of Armenian Organization of French (CCAF) Mourad Papazian, Hollande said he does not break his promises.
“Francois Hollande has again expressed his willingness to propose a bill designed to curb the denial of the Armenian genocide, as he had said during his campaign and even before,” the CCAF said in a statement.
The presidential Elysee Palace confirmed the telephone conversation and told AFP on Saturday: “The president expressed his commitments during the campaign. He will keep them.” “There is no change, although we must find a path, a road that allows for a text that is consistent with the constitution,” it said.
In a related development, the CCAF’s two co-chairmen, Ara Toranian and Mourad Papazian, met with Hollande’s aide, Faouzi Lamdaoui, on Monday. The French-Armenian news portal Armenews.com reported that they discussed details of a meeting between the French president and the CCAF leadership scheduled for the second half of this month. It quoted Lamdaoui as saying that Hollande is intent on drafting, “as soon as possible,” a new law making it a crime to deny that the 1915 massacres in Ottoman Turkey constituted genocide, reported RFE/RL.
Hollande publicly promised to do that when he marked the genocide anniversary with thousands of Armenians in a central Paris square on April 24. He said the law should be drawn up with “utmost legal security” in order to ensure its approval by the country’s highest court.
Vive Hollande!
Cavus Oghloo should join Davood Oghloo, you should be able to see a strange colorful double headed, snake Oghloo!!they will draw Turkish spectators in Ankara zoo. Oghloos spectacular uneasy crawling movement, will bring joy and amaze, for those faithful Allah lovers, during a noon time namaz break!!
There is a pending account between France and Turkey, Syria and possibly Lebanon is lost to Russia because of Turkey’s mediotricity and unreliability to defend West’s interests in the area, he manipulated and B…STD all the way, just to benefit financially from the West, not to mention thousands of soldiers that died and unnecessary Billions of dollars that was lost in Iraq war when US requested Turkey’s help, which they refused, this is a repetition of the same. Turkey will betray every time and in every occasion, Mrs. Clinton should be aware and open her eyes. She can’t risk American interest in the area to Turkey to defend.
Cavusoglu is right. Let him worry about it now and forever.
This man doesn’t look Turkish …
God knows how many armenian cells he has…!
From centuries…!
Sylva, It’s about time that we put this turkey, or that looks like us to rest. One is an Armenian when he says he is an Armenian.
Always Oglu suspect another blood…
After reading…Since decade
There is no Turkish pure blood …
They are forced to say they are Turkish…
Turkish is only nationality…like Americans…
Never a pure gene …
Like Scandinavians or Africans…!
You’re right Sylva, when I saw his picture first I thought he is an Armenian.
OGLU MONKEY OGLU!
holland will keep his promiss all the meatungs that took place with davouoghlou are to be in vain…
At the end only money will talk.
Its the first time a turkee got the message,gooble,gooble
A Turk is always a Turk. Do not forget it.
A viper in human clothes.