Chief Justice of Slovakia, former Slovakian Minister of Justice Štefan Harabin is surprised that the Turks, protesting earlier against Switzerland and Slovakia for passing the bill criminalizing denial of the Armenian Genocide, have raised an unprecedented noise against the French Senate. Harabin himself said it in the letter to the President of the Forum of Armenian Associations of Europe (FAAE) Ashot Grigoryan.

“Slovakia has passed the bill criminalizing denial of the Armenian Genocide in 2009. Thus, it is the first state to penalize the denial and the second in Europe after Switzerland to pass the bill. I am highly surprised that the Turks have raised an unprecedented noise against the bill discussion by the French Senate after their futile protests against the bill adoption by Slovakia and Switzerland earlier. I turn to the president of the French Senate and members, claiming that the adoption is a great necessity. Slovakia will join the French President Nikolas Sarkozy’s offer to call all the EU states to pass a suchlike bill,” the letter reads.

Besides, FAAE president have told that before the genocide denial bill adoption by Slovakia, Turkish FM and the Ambassador to Slovakia had launched a campaign in Bratislava demanding to dismantle the monument dedicated to the Genocide victims.