During
a private meeting within the framework of the recent NATO summit, Turkey's
newly elected President Recep Tayyip once again warned French President
Francois Hollande to refrain from the initiative to pass bills on the Armenian
Genocide matter, the Turkish Marmara daily reported,
Erdogan also recalled that the presidents of Armenia
and Azerbaijan will soon hold another meeting.
To recall, on 5 September in
Yerevan French MP Bruno Le Roux said he is committed to the values of France
president on adoption of a law criminalizing Armenian Genocide denial. On 4
September, French National Assembly member Valerie Boyer has introduced a new
bill on criminalizing the denial of genocides and crimes against humanity that
were committed in the 20th century. "These days, when we are preparing to
mark the 100th tragic anniversary of the Armenian Genocide, there is no law in
France that will allow punishing the denial of genocide and crimes against
humanity, except the [Jewish] Holocaust," she noted. According to Boyer, it is indispensable to
immediately adopt a law and propose a new classification for denial. "I propose that the law no longer
considers denial as just an abuse of freedom of expression, but rather as a
crime against humanity," the French MP explained.