The heads of Azerbaijani and Turkish diaspora organizations in Sweden have written a joint letter of protest against French policy towards Armenia.
The letter sent to the French embassy in Sweden was signed by the head of the Sweden- Azerbaijan Federation, Settar Sevigin, and the head of the Ataturk Ideology Centre, Mustafa Sonmez, Gun.Az reports.
The letter condemns the French National Assembly's approval of a bill criminalizing the denial of genocide. If passed by the Senate, the bill will make it a crime to deny any genocide recognized by France, including denial that the 1915 killings of Armenians in the Ottoman Empire were genocide.
The letter says that approval of the bill will increase feuds and racism.
The letter is supported by 12 NGOs. It was sent to the French embassy together with an English edition of Kamran Gur’s book entitled “Armenian File”.
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