A group of Turkish people gathered in front of the French Consulate in New York on January 5 to protest the French genocide bill, which would criminalize the denial of Armenian allegations regarding 1915 incidents.
The protest action, which was organized by the Young Turks Association, featured around 20 people waving Turkish and U.S. flags as they chanted "shame on France", www.rferl.org reported.
Mehves Sonmez, Vice President of the Northeast Region at the Assembly of Turkish American Associations, moved to the United States 23 years ago.
She maintained that the bill was both "unfair" and "illegal," and that numerous attempts by the Turkish government to discuss what had happened were rejected:
"The Turkish government [are] always asking Armenia [to] open the books, let's discuss on both sides," she said. "But they never open the books... we never can discuss archives and what is the truth."
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