{"id":50234,"date":"2012-01-21T19:10:31","date_gmt":"2012-01-21T17:10:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/?p=50234"},"modified":"2014-01-06T23:13:51","modified_gmt":"2014-01-06T21:13:51","slug":"thousands-of-turks-gather-in-paris-to-protest-genocide-bill","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/2012\/01\/21\/thousands-of-turks-gather-in-paris-to-protest-genocide-bill\/","title":{"rendered":"Thousands of Turks gather in Paris to protest genocide bill"},"content":{"rendered":"

PARIS – Anatolia News Agency<\/p>\n

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Thousands of people gathered in the French capital to protest a bill that penalizes rejection of Armenian genocide claims today.<\/p>\n

Nearly 35,000 Turks living in France and other European countries gathered despite rain and cold weather to shun the bill .<\/p>\n

The bill is seto to come to the French Senate floor Monday Jan. 23 when members of the Senate could vote to uphold a parliamentary committee decision against the proposed law and drop the bill without debate.<\/p>\n

Protesters carried French, Turkish, Algerian and Azerbaijani flags and chanted slogans urging senator to act against the legislation.<\/strong><\/p>\n

“I have been living in France for fifty years and I haven’t seen so many Turks got together. Turks in Europe for the first time had the chance to raise a strong voice against an injustice done to them,” Demir \u00d6nger, head of a Paris-based Turkish culture association said.<\/p>\n

A bill proposed by the ruling party penalizes the rejection of Armenian genocide claims in France with a 45,000 euro fine a and one year in jail.<\/p>\n

A similar bill — proposed by the Socialist Party — was approved in 2006 by the lower house but the Senate rejected to debate the bill in May 2011.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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