by Gouda » Thu Oct 12, 2006 10:10 am
Ah yes, the political and market tools in use to cynically abuse the reality of genocide, and its history, for political and market ends. Let the proxy wars continue...<br><br><!--EZCODE BOLD START--><strong> French in Turkey 'genocide' row</strong><!--EZCODE BOLD END--><br><!--EZCODE AUTOLINK START--><a href="http://edition.cnn.com/2006/WORLD/europe/10/12/france.turkey.reut/index.html">edition.cnn.com/2006/WORL...index.html</a><!--EZCODE AUTOLINK END--><br><!--EZCODE QUOTE START--><blockquote><strong><em>Quote:</em></strong><hr>PARIS, France (Reuters) -- Ignoring Turkish protests, the French lower house of parliament overwhelmingly approved a bill on Thursday making it a crime to deny Armenians suffered genocide in 1915 at the hands of the Ottoman Turks...<br><br>The legislation establishes a one-year prison term and 45,000 euro ($56,570) fine for anyone denying the genocide -- exactly the same sanctions as those imposed for denying the Nazi genocide of Jews during World War Two...<br><!--EZCODE BOLD START--><strong><br>However, some Turks think French politicians have more on their minds than 20th century history and suspect they are using the bill to further complicate Ankara's already uphill struggle to join the European Union.</strong><!--EZCODE BOLD END--><br><br>The majority of French people are opposed to Turkey joining the 25-nation bloc and fears over its potential membership was given as one of the reasons why France voted last year to reject the EU constitution...<br><br>"(This vote) can only worsen prospects for EU accession and will move the Turkish population even further away from pro-EU sentiment," said Lars Christensen with Danske Bank in Denmark.<br><br><!--EZCODE BOLD START--><strong>"We have long been optimistic that Turkey will become an EU member, but we're moving in the wrong direction, which will really affect markets," he added.</strong><!--EZCODE BOLD END--><br><br>Both outgoing President Chirac and Socialist presidential frontrunner Segolene Royal say Turkey must acknowledge the genocide before joining the EU, while <!--EZCODE BOLD START--><strong>conservative frontrunner Nicolas Sarkozy is opposed to its EU entry under any conditions</strong><!--EZCODE BOLD END-->.<hr></blockquote><!--EZCODE QUOTE END--> <br><!--EZCODE BOLD START--><strong> EU concern at French genocide vote</strong><!--EZCODE BOLD END--><br><!--EZCODE AUTOLINK START--><a href="http://edition.cnn.com/2006/WORLD/europe/10/12/france.turkey.reax.reut/index.html">edition.cnn.com/2006/WORL...index.html</a><!--EZCODE AUTOLINK END--><br><!--EZCODE QUOTE START--><blockquote><strong><em>Quote:</em></strong><hr>BRUSSELS, Belgium (Reuters) -- The European Union said French parliament approval on Thursday of a bill making it a crime to deny Armenians suffered genocide by Ottoman Turks could harm efforts to end decades of dispute over the killings...<hr></blockquote><!--EZCODE QUOTE END--><br><!--EZCODE BOLD START--><strong>Pamuk wins Nobel literature prize</strong><!--EZCODE BOLD END--><br><!--EZCODE AUTOLINK START--><a href="http://edition.cnn.com/2006/WORLD/europe/10/12/nobel.literature/index.html">edition.cnn.com/2006/WORL...index.html</a><!--EZCODE AUTOLINK END--><br><!--EZCODE QUOTE START--><blockquote><strong><em>Quote:</em></strong><hr>STOCKHOLM, Sweden (CNN) -- Turkish author Orham Pamuk, who has clashed with his country's government and was taken to court for "insulting Turkishness," has won the 2006 Nobel Prize for Literature...<br><br><!--EZCODE BOLD START--><strong>The choice of 54-year-old Istanbul-born Pamuk comes during a political controversy involving Turkey and the massacre of Armenians during World War I in the last days of the Ottoman Empire.</strong><!--EZCODE BOLD END--><br><br>Pamuk, a widely-known known author whose works have been translated into many languages, went on trial for telling a Swiss newspaper in February 2005 that Turkey was unwilling to deal with two of the most painful episodes in recent Turkish history: the massacre of Armenians during World War I, which Turkey insists was not a planned genocide, <!--EZCODE BOLD START--><strong>and recent guerrilla fighting in Turkey's overwhelmingly Kurdish southeast...<br></strong><!--EZCODE BOLD END--><br>Last year's winner was British playwright Harold Pinter, a vociferous critic of U.S. foreign policy. That award triggered accusations that the Swedish Academy was anti-American, left-leaning and politically motivated.<hr></blockquote><!--EZCODE QUOTE END--><br><!--EZCODE BOLD START--><strong>2 Former Empires Rattled by proxies of the Present Empire?</strong><!--EZCODE BOLD END--><br><!--EZCODE AUTOLINK START--><a href="http://p216.ezboard.com/frigorousintuitionfrm10.showMessage?topicID=6316.topic">p216.ezboard.com/frigorou...6316.topic</a><!--EZCODE AUTOLINK END--> <p></p><i>Edited by: <A HREF=http://p216.ezboard.com/brigorousintuition.showUserPublicProfile?gid=gouda@rigorousintuition>Gouda</A> at: 10/12/06 8:14 am<br></i>