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Passage of French genocide bill irresponsible: Turkey

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Face up it to Turkey, you committed genocide against the Armenians. Denying it makes you look disgusting and uncivilised. Imagine if Germany tried to deny the Holocaust? Or Japan tried to deny the... oh wait.

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Face up it to Armenia, you killed thousands of Turks. Denying it makes you look disgusting and uncivilised. Imagine if France tried to deny theAlgeria? This one is REAL

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Really, can't things like this be forgotten about or downplayed ? I am not comfortable having to learn that Turkey, which was not in the club of those privileged, white, Christian empires, was also guilty of some pretty bad stuff.

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Probably over your heads not living in France, but for me the senate has far more pressing issues than this rubbish. Namely the chronic inflation since the Euro, the widespread abuse of a ridiculously generous social tit to suck and employment.

Nothing but Sarkozy pandering for the million or so Armenian voters in an election year.

And besides, when will the French pass a bill recognizing their own attrocities, namely and rather more recently than the Ottomans, in Algeria?

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Face up it to Armenia, you killed thousands of Turks. Denying it makes you look disgusting and uncivilised. Imagine if France tried to deny theAlgeria? This one is REAL

Are you denying the Armenian genocide?

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France is denying Algeria. I'm not sure it can be classed as genocide, but the stain of France's history and the on-going memory of the attrocities they comitted in the name of colonialism negates any credibility in the bill they're wasting the people's time on.

Before clocking out for a 4 hour lunch on tax-payer centime. And giving themselves another massive pay rise.

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France is denying Algeria. I'm not sure it can be classed as genocide, but the stain of France's history and the on-going memory of the attrocities they comitted in the name of colonialism negates any credibility in the bill they're wasting the people's time on.

But I was talking about the Armenian genocide, France's refusal to properly face up to its colonial crimes in Algerie doesn't take mean the Turkish have any moral high ground when it comes to denying their genocide. And I never said anything even remotely supportive of France to suggest you needed to point that out.

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Oh, please don't take offence I was agreeing with you, even gave you thumbs up.

The Turks are in denial about the genocide, I totally agree. My beef is the French have no place on the moral high ground after their own very recent past.

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Oh, please don't take offence I was agreeing with you, even gave you thumbs up. The Turks are in denial about the genocide, I totally agree. My beef is the French have no place on the moral high ground after their own very recent past.

Sorry then, I misread. I agree that the French are being hypocrites over this issue.

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You people how many history books and researches read about 1st WW. Who will we believe? to the researches or French and armenian lies?

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You people how many history books and researches read about 1st WW. Who will we believe? to the researches or French and armenian lies?

You're denying the Armenian genocide again. No lies, historical fact. I'm sorry it's something you can't accept, probably because you realise just what a truly abhorrent act it was, and how shamefully it reflects on a Turkey, espeically since it refuses to recognise it. Turkey is so desperate for EU membership, but that will never happen. Make your country less dangerous, wealthier and less repressive if you want your dream to come true.

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