FACTS ON EUROPEAN ATTITUDES TOWARDS ARMENIAN MASSACRE

14 December 2004
The Tocqueville Connection

PARIS, Dec 14 (AFP) - France in 2001 became the third European Union nation to pass a measure describing the 1915-1917 Ottoman Empire massacre of Armenians as a genocide. However, the French government did not use the G word until Tuesday, days before the EU was to face a key decision on Turkish accession talks. The National Assembly in France, which has an Armenian community of 450,000, voted in 2001 to qualify the massacre as a genocide, although the French government has until now, preferred to refer to it as a "tragedy".

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