>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 :)
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>BTW What happen to French laws protecting freedom of speach ??

It happens to be applied to protect Armeians' right to speak about their history - and to dare Turkey to stop them.

Couldn't they all just come to some truth about the matter? Decide who's living in the virtual past, Armenians or the Turks. Can't be they're both right, but it's possible they're both somewhat wrong.

I think this French law is paradoxical simply because it is about a paradox.