Thursday, September 28, 2006

‘Armenian Genocide’ Hinders Turkish-Dutch Candidates

"‘Armenian Genocide’ Hinders Turkish-Dutch Candidates
By Emre Demir, Basri Doğan, Strasbourg, Amsterdam
Thursday, September 28, 2006
zaman.com

As the European Union presses Ankara for a revision of Article 301 of the Turkish Penal Code that limits free speech, Turks are facing their own difficulties in the Netherlands.

Three Turkish-origin candidates were removed from their party lists in the Netherlands for the Nov. 22 early parliamentary elections on the pretext that they did not acknowledge the purported Armenian genocide."

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