>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"
If I understand the situation correctly, in Turkey you can be punished for saying that this genocide DID happen, and in France (if the law gets approved), for saying that this genocide DID NOT happen. The safest thing is to keep your mouth shut <g>.
Difference in opinions hath cost many millions of lives: for instance, whether flesh be bread, or bread be flesh; whether whistling be a vice or a virtue; whether it be better to kiss a post, or throw it into the fire... (from Gulliver's Travels)
