Valérie Boyer Gets Her Way

Valérie Boyer Gets Her Way...Now she can tell how she feels about the massacres of Turks in the Balkans, Greece and Caucasus.. Turks should press for the recognition of their sufferings instead of denying Armenian Atrocities in France under this silly law in the making. 


France formally recognized the killings as genocide in 2001, but provided no penalty for anyone denying that. The bill sets a punishment of up to one year in prison and a fine of €45,000 ($59,000) for those who deny or "outrageously minimize" the killings by Ottoman Turks, putting such action on a par with denial of the Holocaust. Despite strong protests by Turkey, French lawmakers easily passed a measure Thursday to make it a crime in France to deny that the mass killings of Armenians in 1915 amounted to a genocide. There was no official vote count in the ballot in France's lower house of parliament since lawmakers simply voted by raising their hands. The measure now goes to the Senate, where its fate is less clear.



Mavi Boncuk |
"I am shocked with the activities of the Turkish side over the bill. Today the basis of Turkey's diplomacy is threat which is already an outdated practice in diplomacy. The recent steps of Turkey are being viewed as an attempt to interfere into France's policy. They can only reinforce the opinion and determination of the MPs to adopt the bill," --Valérie Boyer[1] 


Turkish “Hurriyet” daily has requested French MP Ms. Valerie Boyer, who authored Armenian Genocide denial bill. French MP has expressed confidence that this time (on December 19) French Senate will approve the bill. According to the MP the failed bill in 2006 was risky to have some conflict with the constitution; hence the new version, which is now in line with the country’s constitutions and EU norms, has been drafted. Asked that Turkey can push in its Parliament a document concerning French militia activities in Algeria decades ago, Ms. Boyer has first reminded of her Algerian origin, and highlighted that it wasn’t genocide in Algeria but a fight against colonial system and that in 1962 Algeria declared its independence. Turkish media claimed the document could be modernized depending on the forthcoming French presidential election results, Ms. Boyer said: “It doesn’t matter who will rule – the rights, or the lefts, France thinks Armenian Genocide is a crime. If France has recognized events in 1915 as genocide, it’s necessary to punish those who will deny it.”


[1] Valérie Boyer (born June 11, 1962 in Bourges, Cher) is a member of the National Assembly of France. She represents the Bouches-du-Rhône department, and is a member of the Union for a Popular Movement.