{"id":83372,"date":"2011-04-08T12:30:20","date_gmt":"2011-04-08T07:30:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.epress.am\/?p=83372"},"modified":"2011-04-08T12:31:12","modified_gmt":"2011-04-08T07:31:12","slug":"france-wont-support-bill-on-punishing-armenian-genocide-deniers-bagis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/2011\/04\/08\/france-wont-support-bill-on-punishing-armenian-genocide-deniers-bagis.html","title":{"rendered":"France Won&#8217;t Support Bill on Punishing Armenian Genocide Deniers: Ba\u011f\u0131\u015f"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Turkish\u00a0State Minister, Turkey\u2019s chief EU negotiator Egemen Ba\u011f\u0131\u015f has said he was told by French government representatives that the French government will not support an Armenian bill proposing punishment for anyone who denies the Armenian Genocide, reports <a href=\"http:\/\/www.todayszaman.com\/newsDetail_getNewsById.action?load=detay&amp;newsId=240502&amp;link=240502\"><strong><span style=\"color: #000080;\">Today&#8217;s Zaman<\/span><\/strong><\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Ba\u011f\u0131\u015f told reporters on Thursday that French government officials guaranteed him that the current government is \u201copenly and clearly\u201d against the bill in the French Senate. Ba\u011f\u0131\u015f is on an official visit in Paris to have talks with French officials.<\/p>\n<p>Recall, the French parliament recognized the Armenian Genocide in 2001, which resulted in short-lived tension between France and Turkey. In 2006, the French National Assembly adopted a bill proposing punishment for anyone who denies the Armenian Genocide. However, it has been five years and the bill has yet to be passed by the Senate.<\/p>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Turkish State Minister, Turkey\u2019s chief EU negotiator Egemen Ba\u011f\u0131\u015f has said he was told by French government representatives that&#8230;<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":83329,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tstyn_error":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[10372,13334,10790],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83372"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=83372"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83372\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/83329"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=83372"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=83372"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=83372"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}