"EU backs Turkey over French law
By Sebnem Arsu The New York Times
ISTANBUL Senior European Union officials sided with Turkey on Friday in a growing controversy over legislation in France that would make it a crime to deny that the killings of Armenians in Turkey during and after World War I constituted genocide.
A statement by José Manuel Barroso, the president of the European Commission, coincided with satisfaction in Turkey that Orhan Pamuk, who has been involved in controversy over the Armenia issue, had been named the first Turkish novelist to win the Nobel Prize in Literature."
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