Turkey’s Justice Minister Sadullah Ergin was one of the first Turkish ministers to react to the French Senate’s passing of the bill that criminalizes the denial of genocides, including the Armenian Genocide.   

Upon hearing of the bill’s passing, Ergin said: “This was an unlawful decision and disrespect against Turkey,” Milliyet daily of Turkey informs.   

To note, with a vote of 127 in favor and 86 against, France’s Senate passed the bill that criminalizes the denial of the genocides which this country has formally recognized. And these are the Armenian Genocide and the Jewish Holocaust. This law sets a one-year prison sentence plus a 45-thousand-Euro fine for anyone who denies these genocides.