France Armenian Genocide is strongly condemned byTurkey.  Retaliation will come after French Senate approved the France Armenian Genocide bill making it a crime denying mass killings of Armenians by Ottoman Turks was genocide.

Ankara / NationalTurk – Relations between France and Turkey, the two NATO allies are at its lowest and Ankara’s ambassador in Paris states he’s ready to return to Turkey, after France shamelessly uses poor Armenian conscience as a cat’s paw for the upcoming France elections by approving the Armenian Genocide Bill in the French senate.

Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan has accused French President Nicolas Sarkozyan, who is seeking re-election in 2012, of using the law to please to France’s nearly 400,000 voters of Armenian origin.

France Armenian genocide attrocity : Politics have won over law

France Senate’s upper house approved the genocide bill late on Monday evening, criminalizing the denial of Armenians killed by Ottoman Turks during World War I was genocide. The approval of the Genocide bill will be finalized as a law after French President Sarkozyan signs it.

The dire event is condemned by Turkey whereas it found praise in Armenia. Armenian people who live in Armenia are not represented by themselves. The lobbyist Armenian diaspora all over the world decides for them.

The French Senate passed the bill – which allows for a potential one-year prison penalty sentence and a fine of up to 45,000 euros for those who deny that Armenian genocide committed by Turks occurred in 1915 – by a vote of 127 to 86. Of the 217 members of the senate 213 used legit votes. 107 was the number required so the law could be passed. The Armenian genocide bill, passed last month by France’s lower house, the National Assembly, must now be signed by French President Nicolas Sarkozyan before it can become law, which contradicts with the 34th ammendment of French constitution. The 34th bylaw of French Constitution is about freedom of speech and expression.

Sarkozyan licks the boots of Armenian voters

Nicholas Sarkozyan’s Foreign Minister Alain Juppe has also admitted the Turkey involving France Genocide bill is “untimely” while even French Senate’s committee chairman, Jean-Pierre Sueur, criticized the Armenian genocide bill as unconstitutional, stating that it could be rejected by France’s constitutional court. Sueur claims it specifically runs counter to constitutional provisions guaranteeing freedom of speech and academic research. He shoved his protests by slamming the French MP’s supporting the genocide bill by asking ” Who and what powers do you exactly you serve? ”, hinting at the tastleless motives behind the dire attempt to alter history for political gains.

Armenia praised and hailed the French Senate’s Genocide vote as a day “written in gold,” while Turkey lamented “a black day in France’s history.”

‘Permanent’ consequences in France Turkey Relations after Armenian Genocide Bill

France’s NATO ally Turkey, however, has threatened to raise the level of severe diplomatic fallouts if the genocide bill will be signed by Sarkozyan to be finalized as law before French parliament takes a break at the end of February ahead of the France presidential election. Ankara administration has already temporarily suspended all relations with Paris as Turkey’s government has frozen political and military ties with France. French President Sarkozyan whose party French UMP (the mainstream right-wing party in France) supported the France Armenian Genocide bill, needs to sign it into law, but that is largely considered a formality.

French genocide bill puts Nazis and Turks at same level

The Armenian genocide bill means that France will officially recognize two genocides of the last century- that of the Jews at the hands of the Nazis during the Second World War and the killings in eastern Turkey between 1915 and 1917 during World War I.

Turkey : Reactions to France Armenian Genocide Law Approval

Turkey has threatened retaliatory measures against France following a French senate vote approving a genocide bill that would criminalize a denial that the mass killings of Armenians in 1915 constituted had been genocide.

In a written statement following Monday’s vote, Turkey’s foreign ministry declared: “Turkey strongly condemns this decision which is… an example of irresponsibility.”

“Politicising the understanding of justice and history through other people’s past and damaging freedom of expression in a tactless manner are first and foremost a loss for France.”

Turkey’s justice minister Sadullah Ergin added that the France Genocide bill was “a great injustice” that showed “a total lack of respect” for Turkey and human rights.

 France Armenian Genocide Law will be ignored by Turkey

“Turkey will never accept such a law, and now everybody will pay a price, including Turkey, France, and the Armenian communities,” he warned, as Turkish Prime Minister annonced today at Turkish parliament that Turkey will ignore the law inacted by France.

“You can expect diplomatic relations will be at the level of charge d’affaires, not ambassador anymore.” “Turkey is committed to taking all necessary measures against this unjust disposition, which reduces basic human rights to nothing,” Turkey’s Foreign Ministry announced in a statement issued later yesterday evening.

The Turkish embassy in Paris declared France was “in the process of losing a strategic partner.” “If the law is adopted by the French government, the consequences will be permanent,” an Turkish embassy spokesman stated.

French politicians suggest Turkey and Turkish government should remain calm and avoid taking steps which could damage France’s relation with Turkey, an ally to France they claim hypocritically.

While Turkish government seems to have failed at carrying out a decent policy at handling the crisis, and becoming nothing more than a barking dog rather than biting, Turkish historians who are first historians and not nationalists claim, calling the events in 1915 a genocide is unjust.

But Turkey has to face its demons and Turkish people, more importantly younger Turks deserve to know the truth. ”  To say and claim that ”There is no Armenian genocide committed by Turks” should be backed up with proper history and policy. Turks and Armenians need and deserve to know why 300.000 Armenian people who were living in those lands before 1915 had to migrate. Migration never occurs without something forces you to migrate.

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