The Armenian issue is nowadays quite popular in Europe. The French brought legislation to the parliament, placing all the counter arguments against the so-called Armenian genocide out of bounds. If it is passed, rejecting the so-called genocide will be penalized either by casting into prison or imposing substantial fines.
Discussions go on in the Netherlands after the three Turkish originated MP candidates (Erdin Sacan-labour party, Ayhan Tonca and Osman Elmaci from Christian democratic party) have been removed from the candidate list just for not accepting the existence of so-called Armenian genocide. A similar thing had happened to Derya Bulduk, who was a candidate from the FDF (Democratic front of the Francophones) in Belgium.
The two mainstream parties claim that the Netherlands accepted the so-called Armenian genocide and base their[1][1] claims on the recommendatory decision on 21 December 2004, recognizing the existence of the so called genocide.
According to the General Assembly decision of the UN in 1948, genocide is defined as; killing members of a group, causing serious bodily or mental harm to members of the group, deliberately inflicting on the group conditions of life calculated to bring about physical destruction in whole or in part, imposing measures intended to prevent births within the group, and forcibly transferring children of the group to another group.
The chair of ISRO, Sedat Laciner (Laciner, 2005) defines genocide as
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