{"id":918,"date":"2017-01-26T19:03:16","date_gmt":"2017-01-26T15:03:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/armeniancause.net\/?p=918"},"modified":"2017-03-31T19:33:42","modified_gmt":"2017-03-31T15:33:42","slug":"danish-parliament-passes-questionable-bill-regarding-armenian-genocide","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/armeniancause.net\/?p=918","title":{"rendered":"Danish Parliament Passes Questionable Bill Regarding Armenian Genocide"},"content":{"rendered":"

Bill Challenges Turkey\u2019s Restrictions on Armenian Genocide Speech<\/strong><\/p>\n

(armenianweekly.com<\/a>) COPENHAGEN, Denmark\u2014The Danish Parliament (Folketing) adopted a new resolution regarding the Armenian Genocide on Jan. 26, which recognizes the \u201ctragic and bloody events that took place in eastern Anatolia in the period 1915-1923,\u201d and states that the best way for reconciliation is through open dialogue on the basis of a \u201cfree and uncensored history research, including the release of all official documents from the period.\u201d<\/p>\n

While the bill criticizes Turkey and the fact that the term \u201cgenocide\u201d cannot freely be used by its citizens and media, it does not specifically label the Armenian Genocide as such\u2014except for in its title. The bill also states that the Parliament \u201cmaintains its parliamentary tradition not to issue judgments about historical events.\u201d<\/p>\n

After over two hours of discussion on the document brought to the Folketing agenda by Parliamentarians Nick H\u00e6kkerup, S\u00f8ren Espersen, Michael Aastrup Jensen, Henrik Dahl, Martin Lidegaard, and Naser Khader, the Danish Parliament voted 89 to 9 with 11 abstentions to pass the measure.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe Parliament confirms its decision no. V 54 of 19 May 2015 on the tragic and bloody events that took place in eastern Anatolia in the period 1915-1923. The Danish Parliament finds that the best path to reconciliation will be an open dialogue about the story on the basis of a free and uncensored history research, including the release of all official documents from the period. The Parliament regrets that Turkish law prohibits citizens and media to use the term \u2018genocide\u2019 about the events, and considers this to be an unreasonable restriction of both academic freedom as freedom of expression relates to the use of this term. Parliament maintains its parliamentary tradition not to issue judgments about historical events,\u201d reads the adopted bill.<\/p>\n

In 2015, the Danish Parliament adopted a measure<\/a>, which recognized the \u201cdeportations, massacres and other atrocities\u201d that had been committed against the Armenian population Anatolia in 1915-1923. In that bill, the Parliament expressed hope that there can be \u201creconciliation and normalization of relations between Armenia and Turkey,\u201d and called on both governments to work towards that.<\/p>\n

In 2008, then Danish Foreign Affairs Minister Per Stig M\u00f8ller has said in a written parliamentary answer that in the Danish government\u2019s opinion, the issue of the Armenian Genocide is a \u201chistorical question that should be left up to the historians,\u201d indicating that Denmark would not recognize the genocide.<\/p>\n

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Forslag til vedtagelse V 26 Om det armenske folkedrab.<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

Af Nick H\u00e6kkerup (S) , S\u00f8ren Espersen (DF) , Michael Aastrup Jensen (V) , Henrik Dahl (LA) , Martin Lidegaard (RV) , Naser Khader (KF)<\/p>\n

Samling: 2016-17
\nStatus: Vedtaget<\/p>\n

Om forslag til vedtagelse<\/strong><\/p>\n

Sagsgang<\/p>\n

Fremsat 19-01-2017<\/p>\n

Ministeromr\u00e5de<\/p>\n

Forslag til vedtagelse
\nFolketinget bekr\u00e6fter sin vedtagelse nr. V 54 af 19. maj 2015 vedr\u00f8rende de tragiske og blodige begivenheder, som udspillede sig i det \u00f8stlige Anatolien i perioden 1915-1923. Folketinget finder, at den bedste vej til forsoning vil v\u00e6re en \u00e5ben dialog om historien p\u00e5 grundlag af en fri og ucensureret historieforskning, herunder frigivelse af alle officielle dokumenter fra perioden. Folketinget beklager, at tyrkisk lovgivning forbyder borgere og medier at bruge betegnelsen \u00bbfolkedrab\u00ab om begivenhederne, og finder, at dette udg\u00f8r en urimelig begr\u00e6nsning af s\u00e5vel forskningsfriheden som ytringsfriheden uden hermed at forholde sig til anvendelsen af denne ben\u00e6vnelse. Folketinget fastholder dermed sin parlamentariske tradition for ikke at udstede domme over historiske begivenheder.<\/p>\n

Vedtaget 89 stemmer for forslaget (S, DF, V, LA, RV, KF) 9 stemmer imod forslaget (EL) 11 stemmer hverken for eller imod forslaget (ALT, Zenia Stampe (RV), SF). Zenia Stampe (RV) stemte ved en fejl hverken for eller imod forslaget.<\/p>\n

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Forslag til vedtagelse V 54 Om det armenske folkedrab.<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

Af Jacob Lund (S) , Lone Loklindt (RV) , Holger K. Nielsen (SF) , Lars Barfoed (KF)<\/p>\n

Samling: 2014-15 (1. samling)
\nStatus: Vedtaget<\/p>\n

Om forslag til vedtagelse<\/strong><\/p>\n

Sagsgang<\/p>\n

Fremsat 12-05-2015<\/span><\/p>\n

Ministeromr\u00e5de<\/p>\n

Forslag til vedtagelse
\nI anledning af 100-\u00e5ret for de tvangsdeportationer, massakrer og andre overgreb p\u00e5 armeniere, der udspillede sig i det \u00f8stlige Anatolien i perioden 1915-23, understreger Folketinget vigtigheden af at respektere alle nationale, etniske og religi\u00f8se mindretals rettigheder i regionen. Folketinget udtrykker h\u00e5b om, at der kan ske en forsoning og en normalisering af forholdet mellem Armenien og Tyrkiet, opfordrer begge landes regeringer til at arbejde herfor og noterer sig, at en fortsat forbedring af Tyrkiets respekt for landets etniske, religi\u00f8se og nationale mindretal vil kunne bidrage hertil.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Bill Challenges Turkey\u2019s Restrictions on Armenian Genocide Speech (armenianweekly.com) COPENHAGEN, Denmark\u2014The Danish Parliament (Folketing) adopted a new resolution regarding the Armenian Genocide on Jan. 26, which recognizes the \u201ctragic and bloody events that took place in eastern Anatolia in the period 1915-1923,\u201d and states that the best way for reconciliation is through open dialogue on […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":919,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-918","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/armeniancause.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/918","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/armeniancause.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/armeniancause.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/armeniancause.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/armeniancause.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=918"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/armeniancause.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/918\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":920,"href":"https:\/\/armeniancause.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/918\/revisions\/920"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/armeniancause.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/919"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/armeniancause.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=918"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/armeniancause.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=918"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/armeniancause.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=918"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}