By Artur Hakobyan

Interesting developments have unfolded after when Ahmet Karadag, a 57-year-old resident of Turkey’s Gaziantep (Ayntap) city, filed a lawsuit against the French President, France, French-Armenians, and four Armenian foundations in Istanbul—following the French Senate’s passing of the bill that criminalizes the denial of genocides, including the Armenian Genocide—and he demanded compensation. 

Ever since a Gaziantep court accepted this lawsuit by Karadag’s, who claims that the French had killed his grandfather in 1919-1920, and taken his 25 camels and 3.5-kg gold, this Turkish city’s media call upon the citizens to file similar lawsuits, they even present the already-filled petition to that effect, and the claimants simply have to fill in their name and the date.       

The petition also attempts to substantiate that the pillage and killings by the French are beyond the crime’s time-limitation law, and as grounds it points to the French Senate’s aforesaid bill.

In the petition, the Armenians are likewise accused of pillaging and killing the Turks, and in assisting the French, for which the petition also notes the French Armenians and the four Armenian foundations in Istanbul.   

The petition also records that the French bill was a heavy moral blow to the Turkish people, and therefore the claimant demands a symbolic 10,000 Euros for material, and 5,000 Euros for moral damages.