{"id":50380,"date":"2012-01-25T03:04:07","date_gmt":"2012-01-25T01:04:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/?p=50380"},"modified":"2014-01-06T23:14:51","modified_gmt":"2014-01-06T21:14:51","slug":"french-genocide-bill-discriminatory-and-racist","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/2012\/01\/25\/french-genocide-bill-discriminatory-and-racist\/","title":{"rendered":"French genocide bill discriminatory and racist"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-50382\" title=\"4RIA-545963-Preview\" src=\"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/4RIA-545963-Preview.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"460\" height=\"268\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/4RIA-545963-Preview.jpg 460w, https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/4RIA-545963-Preview-300x175.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 460px) 100vw, 460px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan. Photo: RIA Novosti<\/p>\n<p>Turkish Prime Minister Tayyip Erdogan on Tuesday slammed as &#8220;discriminatory and racist&#8221; a French parliament bill making it illegal to deny the mass killing of Armenian by Ottoman Turks nearly a century a century ago was genocide.<\/p>\n<p>Erdogan said Turkey would implement measures against fellow NATO member France &#8220;step by step.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>French FM urges Turkey to play it cool<\/p>\n<p>French Foreign Minister, Alain Jupp\u00e9, has urged the Turkish authorities to keep cool over the law that Paris has recently adopted on responsibility denying the genocide of Armenians.<\/p>\n<p>Jupp\u00e9 told the Canal Plus TV channel that France has a host of factories in Turkey, and that the two countries are linked by major trade and economic ties.<\/p>\n<p>On Monday, the French Senate voted for adopting the draft law on criminal responsibility for denying the genocide of Armenians in the Ottoman Empire. Breaking the law will be punishable by a prison term of up to one year, or a fine of 45,000 euros.<\/p>\n<p>Modern-day Turkey is a legal successor to the Ottoman Empire.<\/p>\n<p>TRT, Turkey\u2019s state-run broadcaster, said it plans to suspend its 15.5 percent partnership with Lyon-based Euronews if France approved the bill, Anatolia reported yesterday.<\/p>\n<p>(Reuters, IF, TASS)<\/p>\n<p>via French genocide bill discriminatory and racist: Turkey PM: Voice of Russia.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan. Photo: RIA Novosti Turkish Prime Minister Tayyip Erdogan on Tuesday slammed as &#8220;discriminatory and racist&#8221; a French parliament bill making it illegal to deny the mass killing of Armenian by Ottoman Turks nearly a century a century ago was genocide. Erdogan said Turkey would implement measures against fellow NATO [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":83,"featured_media":50382,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[48],"tags":[7652],"class_list":["post-50380","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-france","tag-denial-of-armenian-genocide"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50380","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=50380"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50380\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/50382"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=50380"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=50380"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=50380"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}