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France’s lower house of parliament has passed a bill making it a crime to deny the Armenian genocide, a step that has been strongly denounced by the Turkish government.
Introduced by France’s socialist opposition, the draft law would make it a crime to deny that the 1915-1917 massacres of an estimated 1.2 million Christian Armenians by Ottoman Turks were an act of genocide.
The bill, passed by the ...  |