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The French constitutional court has overthrown a law which would have made it illegal to deny that a massacre of Armenians in Turkey was genocide. Now the French government wants to revise the law and try again.
Diplomatic relations between Turkey and France were at stake as the French constitutional court made its ruling on the genocide law. The law would have made it illegal to deny that the killing of up to 1.5 million Christian Armenians in Turkey between 1915 and 1917 was genocide.
But the court ruled that the law was not in line with the constitutional right to free speech. Had it passed, it would have imposed a year in prison or a 45,000-euro ($65,000) fine on anyone who denied the Armenian - or any other - genocide.