>>>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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>>Metin,
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>>Wasn't he prosecuted, and acquitted, for insulting Turkishness or some such?
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>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.
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>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.

Hi Mike,

Since there is such thing as law against denying WW2 Holocaust, this one is kind of follower of the same reasoning. Except that it has political repercussions since Turkey is on EU accession course. By doing it, official France basically claims what official Turkey denies/finds insulting and even prosecutes.
So France<>Turkey might get into array of ridiculous lawsuits on various levels, where in reality it wld be much funnier/productive if they decided to play the same number of friendly soccer matches instead :)
(ZZ included!)

BTW What happen to French laws protecting freedom of speach ??