{"id":50475,"date":"2012-01-27T04:22:04","date_gmt":"2012-01-27T02:22:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/?p=50475"},"modified":"2023-04-08T14:23:03","modified_gmt":"2023-04-08T11:23:03","slug":"clinton-sidesteps-dispute-between-turkey-and-france-over-genocide-legislation-the-washington-post","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/2012\/01\/27\/clinton-sidesteps-dispute-between-turkey-and-france-over-genocide-legislation-the-washington-post\/","title":{"rendered":"Clinton sidesteps dispute between Turkey and France over genocide legislation"},"content":{"rendered":"

WASHINGTON \u2014 Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton on Thursday sidestepped a delicate dispute between two allies over the World War I-era killing of Armenians in Turkey.<\/h2>\n

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Clinton was asked why the United States has not matched a move by French lawmakers to criminalize denial that the killings were genocide. The French legislation has enraged Turkey, which has threatened sanctions if French President Nicolas Sarkozy signs the bill.<\/p>\n

The U.S. administration has avoided calling the killings genocide despite support for recognition by both Clinton and President Barack Obama when they were senators.<\/p>\n

Clinton said the administration was wary of compromising free speech. She said the issue was best left for scholars.<\/p>\n

\u201cTo try to use government power to resolve historical issues, I think, opens a door that is a very dangerous one to go through,\u201d Clinton said at an event with U.S. State Department employees.<\/p>\n

via Clinton sidesteps dispute between Turkey and France over genocide legislation – The Washington Post.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

WASHINGTON \u2014 Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton on Thursday sidestepped a delicate dispute between two allies over the World War I-era killing of Armenians in Turkey. Clinton was asked why the United States has not matched a move by French lawmakers to criminalize denial that the killings were genocide. The French legislation has enraged […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":83,"featured_media":50477,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,48,34],"tags":[7652,1188],"class_list":["post-50475","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-armenian-question","category-france","category-usa","tag-denial-of-armenian-genocide","tag-hillary-clinton"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50475","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=50475"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50475\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/50477"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=50475"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=50475"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=50475"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}