{"id":49900,"date":"2012-01-18T16:32:28","date_gmt":"2012-01-18T14:32:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/?p=49900"},"modified":"2014-01-06T23:12:53","modified_gmt":"2014-01-06T21:12:53","slug":"french-legislators-oppose-armenian-genocide-bill","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/2012\/01\/18\/french-legislators-oppose-armenian-genocide-bill\/","title":{"rendered":"French Legislators oppose Armenian genocide bill"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter  wp-image-49901\" title=\"Sarkoziye sok\" src=\"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/Sarkoziye-sok.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"514\" height=\"270\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/Sarkoziye-sok.jpg 571w, https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/Sarkoziye-sok-300x158.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 514px) 100vw, 514px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The Associated Press<\/p>\n<p><strong>PARIS \u2014 A Senate panel says it would be unconstitutional for France to make it illegal to deny that the mass killings of Armenians by Ottoman Turks nearly a century ago constituted\u00a0genocide.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Relations between France and Turkey have soured since the National Assembly, France&#8217;s lower house of parliament, passed such a bill last month and sent it to the Senate.<\/p>\n<p>The Senate&#8217;s Commission of Laws voted Wednesday that such a law, if passed, would violate constitutional protections, notably freedom of speech. <strong>The vote was 23 Senators for and 9 against, with 8 abstentions.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>The panel vote \u2014 a nonbinding recommendation \u2014 was the first legislative setback for the controversial bill. The measure goes to the full Senate for debate on Monday.<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Associated Press PARIS \u2014 A Senate panel says it would be unconstitutional for France to make it illegal to deny that the mass killings of Armenians by Ottoman Turks nearly a century ago constituted\u00a0genocide. Relations between France and Turkey have soured since the National Assembly, France&#8217;s lower house of parliament, passed such a bill [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":83,"featured_media":49901,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,48],"tags":[136,498],"class_list":["post-49900","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-armenian-question","category-france","tag-sarkozy","tag-zionism"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49900","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/83"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=49900"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49900\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/49901"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=49900"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=49900"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=49900"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}