McCurdy: Pressure Must Be Exerted On Armenia To Establish A Joint Commission Of Historians
Sunday, 05 February 2012 13:20
Interview with Lincoln McCurdy, the president of Turkish Coalition of America (TCA)
- What are your views on Armenia’s negative insistence on international community as the French Senate recently passed the bill penalizing the denial of the so-called genocides recognized by the law?
- This bill criminalizes speech by mandating the categorical acceptance of a historical narrative. It goes beyond expressing support for a one-sided narrative of the Ottoman Armenian tragedy, and would effectively censor any viewpoint that differs from how a political body, the French Parliament, reads and interprets this history and defines it - although it lacks the legal or legitimate authority to do so. It is an onslaught on academic freedom, freedom of inquiry, freedom of thought and freedom of speech. This is antithetical to the impartial pursuit of the truth.
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