Turkey sanctions over French Bill about genocide

Robert Agius

Dec 23rd 2011, 07:22

Cause the denial of 1 person (whose name was used to kill millions by the way) is more important than a genocide, hux?

Perhaps they should slap a fine on whoever says he rose from death 3 days later.

Maria Borg

Dec 23rd 2011, 15:30

Robert Agius,
Cause the denial of 1 person (whose name was used to kill millions by the way) is more important than a genocide, hux?

He's not 1 person but 3 persons in 1 and secondly he's the son of God, and that makes him more important than any other historical event. No one should publicily deny the existence of God, without facing jail and a hefty fine. Sarkozy had a good idea, that of jailing those who publicly deny the truth and we in Malta should learn from him.

Ozkan Huvaz

Dec 25th 2011, 17:14

In 1915, the Ottoman Empire (Current Turkey??) was under the invasion of French, British, Greek, Armenian... forces. Ottoman archives are open for historians. If you read those, you can tell terrible things happened for both sides. But I could not convince my self to call it "G word" with the available evidence. I want to read Armenian Archives as well but they are closed, so no idea.

Even all happened, despite I can't find enough evidence to call it the "G word", what ever you call it, terrible events or something else, I want to know "WHY DOES FRANCE BAN ME FROM DISCUSSING A HISTORICAL EVENT BY LAW? WHY I WILL BE ARRESTED FOR 1 YEAR 48,000EUR FINED IF I TALK ABOUT THAT EVENT?" Where is the France that has made Revolutions, where is the "RIGHT OF FREE SPEECH", where are the "HUMAN RIGHTS". France is betraying its own history of Renascence.

History should be concluded by HISTORIANS, not POLITICIANS.

During those terrible events of 1915, there were Armenian ministers and plenty of Armenian government workers who continued their duties in the Ottoman Empire during this period. In the 19th century, twenty-nine Armenians were granted the highest military-governmental rank of Pasha (General). There were twenty-two Armenian ministers in Ottoman Administration, including the Ministers of Foreign Affairs, Finance, Treasury, Trade and Post, with other Armenians holding high positions at the departments in charge of agriculture, economic development, and the census. There also were thirty-three Armenian representatives appointed and elected to the Ottoman Parliament, seven ambassadors, eleven consuls-general and consuls, eleven university professors, and forty-one other officials of high rank.
DOES THIS MAKE SENSE IF OTTOMANS WERE TRYING TO EXTINCT ARMENIANS? Were there any Jews working for German government during Hitler Germany?

Coming to the Sanctions on France: I don't get how France ventures the idea of losing a G20 country, talking about 19 Billion USD trade, at those times of heavy depression, particularly knowing the fact that Turkey enjoys 8%, highest economical growth of the World, while rest of the Europe is in deep economical crises. This will effect both sides tremendously, but France more deeply (e.g. Turkish Airlines may buy planes from Boing, or let Russians build Nuclear plants ect.). The question is, who is gonna benefit from 100 Billion USD of energy bid rounds in the next 5-10 years? Probably not the France!