Armenian Genocide and Politics

In a BBC article, titled Armenian Diaspora Bound by Killings, Steven Eke touches on how modern day Armenian identity is greatly connected to the events of genocide. Also a law was passed in France “forbidding denial “ of the Armenian genocide. In a second article from the BBC, police investigated the theft of an Armenian genocide monument in Paris. It was said that the Armenia bill might have triggered this attack because there were influences against the bill including Turkey, which still strongly denies the past genocide, and the EU, which also criticized the law. In 2007, Turkey “threatened to restrict US access to a key military base used for its operations in Iraq” states a third article from BBC news, as well as provoke “anti-Americanism throughout Turkey if the bill is passed.”