"Events in Arts, Politics Highlight Turkey's Tangled Ties to Europe
As Nobel Goes to Turk, France Takes Up Armenian Genocide
By John Ward Anderson
Washington Post Foreign Service
Friday, October 13, 2006; Page A20
PARIS, Oct. 12 -- The complex relationship between Turkey and Europe played out Thursday in two European capitals, as Turkey's leading novelist was awarded the 2006 Nobel Prize in literature in Stockholm and French lawmakers here passed a bill that would make it a crime to deny that Ottoman Turkey committed genocide against Armenians during and after World War I."
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