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Turkey this week called on the European Union to oppose a proposed French law that would make “Armenian genocide denial” a crime just like Holocaust denial. The law would make it illegal to refer to Turkey’s World War I campaign against Armenians, in which some 1 million Armenians were killed, as anything less than genocide. Turkey insists that while many Armenians died, there was no organized effort to kill them, and that the deaths occurred in the general unrest surrounding the collapse of the Ottoman Empire. When France first proposed such a law last spring, Turkey responded with a proposal to criminalize denying that the French committed genocide in Algeria, a former French colony. France then withdrew the proposal.
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