>>Today a turk writer "Orhan Pamuk" won Nobel literary prize and France approved a law about if anyone say "there wasn't an armenian genocide in Turkey" it needs prison sentence.
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>>A headline from a turk website "Prize to who says we killed, prison to who says we don't" .
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>>footnote: Orhan Pamuk had said "there was an armenian genocide in Turkey"
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>Wasn't he prosecuted, and acquitted, for insulting Turkishness or some such?


IIRC he was charged with treason, disloyalty to the state, or some such for saying in an interview that Turkey committed genocide against Armenians. The charges were dropped before it went to trial.

I heard on NPR this morning that the French, never passing up an opportunity to stir the pot, have a bill pending that would make it a crime in France to DENY that there was genocide against Armenians. I swear I am not making this up.